Recommended Reading

  • Primer of Towing, George H. Reid
  • Tugboats & Towlines, Warren Salinger
  • Workboats:  An illustrated Guide to Work Vessels from Bristol Bay to San Diego, Archie Satterfield
  • Modern Towing, John S. Blank
  • On Tugboats: Stories of Work & Life Aboard, Virginia L. Thorndike
  • Tug Use in Port,
  • Skookum Tugs, British Columbia's Working Tugboats, Betty Keller, Peter Robson
  • Towboating on Inland Waterways, Susan Markle Wolfe
  • Where the River Runs Deep, Joy J. Jackson
  • Come Hell or High Water, Michael Gillespie
  • From the Bridge, Captain Kelly Sweeney
  • In Command - Captain Lloyd, click here
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The first step in deciding if a Career at Sea is something you are interested in, is to educate yourself about the Workboat Industry.  After reviewing the links on the left side, and the information below, please visit our Career Guidance Pages to choose your specific interests.

 

We have done our best to provide some of the better links about the industry, and some recommended publications which will help you learn about 'Life At Sea'.  If you found other links that you felt were useful, please visit our 'contact us' page and submit the link(s), you believe we should add.

The companies below have agreed to take Cadets from the Workboat Academy.  We will place you as a cadet with one of these companies, so we invite you to learn all you can about the sponsor companies.  Many of these companies have newsletters that you can view, which can give you a wonderful introduction to the organizations as well as their culture, programs, etc.

 
 

The Workboat Search Engine (BETA) is currently searching 85 Workboat Companies, the American Waterways Operator (AWO) and Offshore Marine Supply Association (OMSA).  This is a great resource to learn more about the industry.  Try typing keywords in to the search

engine such as:  Employment, About, Jobs, Career. Culture, life at sea, career, or type in the name of a specific company you are interested in.

  THE WORKBOAT SEARCH ENGINE - click here

(If you would like to add a workboat company to the search engine, please visit our 'contact us' page and send a message with the company you would like us to add)