Betting aboard the Dutch tugboat Johanna
A condition (originally: beding) is a heavy bouncing bolder that serves as a towpile. A tugboat with a towed rope on condition
The trailer condition, an H-shaped steel structure, consists of one or two heavy vertical tubes or beams (monks, teats or spikes), which pass through the deck. Often they are anchored at the bottom of the ship by a foundation on the keel, with a crossbar (mussel car) at the top to be able to invest the line or bunch. Nowadays, the condition is also welded on a deck without this additional connection.
For safety reasons, Dutch tugboats according to the Community Certificate for Inland Waterway Ships must be equipped with a towbar which must be opened under tension from the wheelhouse. A condition can also occur at the forefront and then serves for the investment of an ankertrous. Sometimes the name is pronounced as "bettink".
Bettink is the Flemish name for a chopping board on old inland vessels derived from the fence board, the mirror cutter of 17th and 18th century seafarers. Betingformule
The diameter of the condition poles can be determined by means of an empirical formula. For this purpose a rule of thumb has been developed that indicates the ratio between the diameter of the condition pole and the length of the ship. The diameter of the condition in millimeters is 16 times the length of the ship in meters, with 5% margin.
This formula prevents a large ship, such as a seafront, to have a disproportionately high condition and a small snap a condition that would curl through the pull force. The distance between the conditions appears to be on average not twice the diameter of the condition post.
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