Tugboats...

Over the years I’ve always been struck by the variety of shapes, sizes, and decoration of tugboats, and (again like I’ve commented about some of the decorations in Las Vegas) the way tugs are painted looks to me like a kind of folk art. Here are some of my favorites. The majority come from Long Island Sound and the Hudson River (taken before 1993), but now I’m finding some nice ones in the intracoastal waterway along the Texas Gulf coast.

This one and the next three are from the Hudson River. I went cruising there in the early nineties, leaving from Huntington on Long Island, spending the night in Oyster Bay, then going through Hell’s Gate into the East River, then around Manhattan and up the Hudson. Ultimately I got a couple hours cruise north of West Point.

This next one is from the intracoastal waterway. In 2003 we were cruising home to Galveston from Rockport (near Corpus Christi) and the Kelly T showed us the way…

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