NYC Tugboat Race 2013 c
And the winner of the speed race . . . in a record setting 0 days, 0 hours, and precisely five minutes and 0 seconds . . .. . . . sorry . . . this is part of the day too; click on the foto for bowsprite’s rare foto coverage. The winner of […]
NYC Tugboat Race 2013 b
The race may last for less than 10 minutes for (most) boats, but each participant spends hours before and after. Here, using the power of thousands of conceptual horses and one very real donkey, all four vessels in Miller contingent make their way upriver. At Pier 66, crew on deck and crew below start them […]
NYC Tugboat Race 2013 a
Uh . . . what’s this? It’s Buddy, living breathing braying hoof-beglittered mascot of Debora Miller. If you’ve never been to the New York’s race, there’s a best mascot category. In the past there’ve been . . . dogs, hermit crabs, even a chicken . . . but Buddy redefines the contest. With the threat […]
Retro Sixth Boro NYC Tugboat Races 6
It’s hard to believe, but I’ve not been to the Great North River Tugboat Race since 2014, but in normal times, September 5 would see the next race. But we’ve dispensed with the “normal times” concept for the time being. In selecting the batch for this post, I wanted splash, froth, bubbles, and the effervescence […]
Retro Sixth Boro NYC Tugboat Races 3
Let’s do 2013 and 2014, or redo them, same conditions as I stated yesterday. But first let’s look at the 2013 crowd, packing in like you wouldn’t with covid. Here was the crowd at 1010 and by 1035 they had grown significantly. The compulsory muster takes place, irrigated by fireboat John J. Harvey. Once the […]
Retro Sixth Boro NYC Tugboat Races 2
I’ll devote a whole post once again to the 2012 races, since I have a lot of photos. What I did was look for the most dramatic or interesting photos and, in some cases, re-edited them. What I didn’t do is go back through the 2012 posts, but you can here if you want. Again, […]
NYC Tugboat Race 2015
Bravo to the organizers and participants of the 2015 NYC race. It starts with a muster… which looks different as you shift perspective. It’s great to see race newcomers like Sea Scout Ship 243 out of Rahway NJ, and Patricia. By this point, some boats like Robert E. McAllister start to get impatient. Muster […]
Tugster Retrospective 2013
Here’s what I did around this time last year as a look back. As intro, I’d say about the same this year about the number of new fotos and the way I chose these. Subjective is the operant word. January 2013 . . . one day I caught a seldom seen Jennifer Miller passing Robbins […]
2013 Tug Racing Season
The season comes to the east coast in late summer. New York’s 2013 sixth boro race is 12 days away, but you can get tickets to watch it from a boat already by clicking here. Be patient . . . it may load slowly. This is NOT a foto from NYC. Can you guess where […]
Old Years 2020
I don’t celebrate holidays much, but “old year’s day” I take seriously, to look back and assess. Today’s post features photos you may remember from 2020. I chose these from the several thousand photos I put into public domain this year. It’s a personal and subjective exercise; on a different day I might choose another […]
