Tugboats, the semi's of the ocean. They pass Powell River pulling logbooms, construction barges, scows of hogfuel and chips for the local paper mill, train barges, barges loaded with
semi-trailers and chemical tankers and more. And I take their pictures as they pass.

Here you will find some of the photos I have taken of those tugboats as they pull their tows up and down Malaspina Strait and the surrounding waters. Big ones and little ones, good looking tugs and some not so.
I like them all, and if you like tugs - including tugs converted to other uses - I invite you to have a look.

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Captain Cook

Captain Cook - 2015-11-05

Captain Cook - one of 3 Lafarge Cement tugs, here shown tied up at Powell River's South Harbour while her barge was being offloaded at the Mill harbour. Below those, shown in the Catalyst Mill harbour at the City Transfer ramp with a barge of aggregate. In the last shoot she was on the Texada Island side of Malaspina Strait, running light, on her way to Beale Cove on the west side of the Island.

Length: 21.37m Breadth: 6.86m Draft: 3.96m Power: 1125 BHP Year Built: 1966

Captain Cook - 2015-11-05

Captain Cook - 2015-03-21

Captain Cook - 2015-03-21

Captain Cook - 2015-03-21


Captain Cook - 2013-08-09


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