A Day on the Bay in a High-Tech Tugboat

From Telstar Logistics:

A few months ago, Telstar Logistics received a priority call on our top-secret red phone: "Rendez-vous with your contact in the parking lot on the corner of Third and 22nd Street!" We did as instructed, connected with our man at the designated location, and together proceeded to a gritty industrial pier on San Francisco's southern waterfront, where a high-tech tugboat was waiting at idle. We climbed aboard, and as the boat prepared to depart, took a look around. Operated by the Seattle-based Foss Maritime Company, the Marshall Foss was a modern tractor tug, built by Halter Marine in 2001. It was a far cry from the toot-toot look of Scuffy the Tugboat. The Marshall Foss was equipped with twin diesel motors that delivered power to two Rolls-Royce Z-drive thrusters. (What's a Z-drive? They're propeller pods, basically, that can each rotate independently on a 360-degree axis.)

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