New Dann tug blends several designs, but she is no com- promise

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Perhaps the most unusual boat this year, or in many years for that matter, is Chesapeake Coast, a Dann Marine Towing (DMT) tugboat nearing completion at Main Iron Works in Houma, La. The design is a model bow, 100-foot-long conventional tugboat, but with two massive push knees that rise 25 feet above the water, obscuring the deep-V bow. "There have not been any knees built that big before," said Robert Dann Sr. on a recent tour of the boat with his son Robert Jr. The knees are faced with a hefty thickness of M&M Bumper rubber.