The bowhead needs a crane !!  
You should be able to park near an island , drop harveters near the field , fill up all the ressource container and sail away before ennemy pirate come to steal/destroy your stuff .
EDIT : that way you can use it solo, but it would be wiser to have other players helping you scrooping. The longer you stay, the more dangerous it becomes to use it .
Promoting teamplay but not forcing it .

I think the biggest problem for the Bowhead it is trying to fill a role that really doesn't exist.
Water logi for most players and fronts can be accommodated by Freighters. Freighters are cheaper are available sooner and do the same job quicker

My favorite naval logi memory was during the warden last stand of silver island. The island was 2 hexes deep in encirclement, and completely devoid of supplies. In order to get much needed shirts, medical sups, and explosives to the island, I had to...
1) PVE holes in 2 seperate front line bases, large enough for a truck to pass through
2) Clear the husks so the trucks could actually cross
3) Steal a barge from the collie backline, so I could load the truck
4) Ship the truck via stolen barge across the enemy waters

This took me multiple days to set up, but I managed to get the supplies there...

Doing naval logi through such deep enemy territory is fucking scaaaary

Bowhead needs 2 things, small storage for jerry cans of diesel for harvester, and its own built in crane, those 2 are absolutely mandatory for me to see any real use case for them, along with the whole needing more refineries to have more direct water access

Really appreciate the routes being mapped out, as a relatively new player

Air logi next

Some of my favorite logi runs in the game were my freighter deliveries of 300x crates of metal beams to a town that was falling as a meme. Got roasted to hell by the players for its uselessness but ended up saving the town because my allies proceeded to make so many tank traps that the enemy vehicles simply couldn't get into the inner segments of the city and it bought time for friendly logi to bring real AT to town. Alright it was half meme / half what I had left remaining in my private stockpiles. Got promoted from 2LT to LT though so it was worth it back in the day? lol

freighters are still a very underrated transport late game, especially crates of tanks, thats five crates in one run!

A really underrated freighter route for wardens on the east is going from Morgens Crossing to Endless Shore, and likewise on the west going from Nevish line to Farranac Coast

You forgot to mention a neat freighter trick you can use to supply a base when it has no seaport.

When you package a truck it keeps its inventory. So you can load 5 trucks filled with supplies into a freighter for a total of 75 crates compared to the 30 crates barge logi supplies (Plus the destination gets 5 trucks they can use for various tactics). Just make sure your destination has a crane to unload the trucks and you can supply any spawnpoint that has its land route cut off as long as its safe enough to unload and drive your trucks.

Navy logi also has another layer in regiments, which i understand why you didnt cover here. I am part of WN(Warden Navy), and often we do escorts with Gunboats for important logi transports.
- Which can be a lot of fun :).
Therers also often underway replenishment for large naval ops with frigs/DD and battleships where barges come with ammo and fuel. Good way to get 30+ commends xD

Remember the first time i tried doing freighter logi i tried filling up from public and ended up getting shouted at by multiple people and got embarrassed and ran away with a quarter full

This is a really needed video. I would have loved to see this when i started foxhole. +1

love you robert, got me into foxhole in december and i just started doing solo logi

The real big logi groups use bluefins. Moves entire seaports worth of logistics and needs capital ships and multiple gunboats as escorts.

i love ironship
300 crates of supplies can hold up a front for 2-3 hours, essentially saving that front
best part is, frontline player seaports, just a crane next to a river is enough for an ironship to deliver it's supplies, if there is a stroage depot with a flatbed

Thinking about Naval logi in light of where the game has moved—
A mod station for less-than-large ships looks more and more like the future.  Collies and wardens could get separate mods of the ironship and crocodile, and the capability of a crane on a ship could be gated off so that strange invasions and glitchy deployments(of emplacement guns)  are a little less accessible.

Boat to boat logi--replenishment ships for gunships/gunboats and seaplanes--seems like design space to come.

I don’t think you realize how much my island home contributes to the mainland war. Perhaps one day you will find out the level of magnitude that goes into the island fortress/logi hub

There’s a fascinating interaction between pirates and freighter logi in this game- there’s a warden discord (and I’m sure a collie one too) dedicated to coordinating pirating (we call it fishing) collie freighters by sneaking into their water routes and rivers.

Often, long hooks are parked at chokepoints to cut those off from gunboats as their AI can kill any gunboat that tries to get past- that’s why you’ll see a random LH parked somewhere in Morgan’s Crossing or Endless sometimes.

If bow head can be converted from only resource(RTS) or only liquid(LTS) that will be a big help for fuel runs especially now that devs put oil fields together in the backlines.