Celebrate Tugboats at the Harbor Days Festival!
Harbor Days is an annual festival held Labor Day weekend in Olympia WA which celebrates tugboats and maritime history.
Tugboats are powerful little boats which guide large ships and barges into and out of harbors.
Harbor Days executive Director Carol Riley states the festival is the largest vintage tug and race on earth.
"In the late 1800's," Carol explains, "the harbor was really thriving for clams and oysters and timber. It was a very rugged place. The tall ships would come into Budd Bay, and as they entered the bay the tugboats would race out to the tall ships and guide (them) into the harbor. They didn't have any communication devices like we have, so the first tugboat to get to the tall ship would get the job. So every day was a tugboat race."
The 44th annual Harbor Days festival offered walk on tugboat tours, and boasted a plethora of food vendors, music and entertainment.
One tugboat we toured boasted 4300 Horsepower! Enough to tug a Carnival Cruise ship to sea!
With great horsepower comes great big engines. There is little room to move about on a tugboat. This was the furthest I could stand from it for the photo.
It is far larger than what fills the camera screen- there was only one foot of space for me to back up before I was on the wall.
Hatch to the engine. I am 5 foot 2 and still had to duck to enter!
This was the largest kitchen of all the tugboats
We chose a Greek eatery for a Gyro
And a a scrumptious traditional Greek salad, overflowing with Feta cheese, tomatoes, cucumbers, and a zesty balsamic vinegar
My son at the helm-
Captain Kitten ;)
Controls and Communications
View of the piers
Not quite sure what this creature is...
Taking a break from the heat with frosty beverages.
Upset 'lil man- the sun gifted him with an "orange" face. This guy does not like looking anything less than perfect!
Budd Bay
Happy Labor Day my friends!
Tugboat races courtesy of Thurston Talk, Carol Riley via Volcano
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this is really a fascinating scene full of dexterity and shrewdness tested let alone every day if we who look at it would be amazed and exclaimed waw is very nice and interesting small tugboat but the power is really great
Oh it most definitely is!
I went searching for a tugboat gif to share here, so anyone who has never witnessed this could understand the sheer power.
But I found this insted, and being the arbitrary kitten I am, just had to share the spectacular randomness of this event...
very good to be interesting to watch
Yes, and the history in it was so cool to learn!
a great race @arbitrarykitten
Thank you @nasrud :) Glad you enjoyed!
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Very cool, thanks for the invite!
And thank you so much :)
looks like you guys had fun :-) You should get your son involved on Steemit :)
It was fun. I can honestly say that I now appreciate tugboats in a different fashion. Learned a lot from the captains of the ships I boarded.
However, I do not think I would fare well on such a vessel... the living quarters would leave me in a claustrophobic panic!
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