Tugboats? What are you doing this weekend?

http://www.tugboatroundup.com/

Located north of Albany, NY.

Gonna be in town? PM or call me for dogs and beer.

Dan

Sunday at 2 P.M."Tugboat nose to nose competition".That should be interesting.

Steam boats (not the paddle wheeler kind) FTMFW.

It's a tractor pull but they're facing each other. Good stuff.

Two years ago I was there with a friend and we were checking out one of the Captains. A 5'10" redhead female that has the sinuewy texture of one used to pulling big lines all her life. I was intrigued...... til she turned around.

Yeah that part looked real good too, but it was the 15" boning knife tucked into the small of her back that made me go to tourist mode.

'K. Call me if you're in the neighborhood.....

^ he said boning

The knife wouldnt scare me, I likes a woman who can take care of herself. I do make sure not to piss my wife off.

I would have said, with my best aussie accent, "You call that a knife?"

A friend of mine is a tug captain. I usually ride with him every year or so for the day. Awesome machines, it's too bad they don't do anything like that around here.

Tugboats!
Will Theodore be there?
These are my personal photos taken from when he visited Lake Erie around 2002.

Modern tugs are pretty cool if you need to push a football field up the Mississippi.

I'm afraid my attention span is short, I like cars but I've had affairs with boats long before my first car. My head is easily turned.

Home made 12 foot tug. You don't have to be big to have fun.

Pics from last year's Steam event.

This one is an old Navy vessel converted to steam and made to look like the African Queen.

If there was a tugboat Captain in the Village People, I'm pretty sure you'd find him behind the wheel of that thing.

jrw1621 wrote:

Theodore is a Canadian Childeren's Show that airs in the US on PBS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Tugboat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ5sx9X1Zy4&feature=related
And there is a real life version as well.