This is a baby tugboat. At 25 feet long, she is the size of a pleasure boat and can be put on a trailer. But don’t let her small size fool you. She has two John Deere engines that give her a maximum of 400 horsepower. That’s stronger than most pickup trucks and 4x more…
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Cruising on a Tugboat on the Chesapeake Bay
Nearly a decade ago, I worked on tugboats. This is some footage I collected during that time. This tug was named Hoss, and we were pushing a sand barge across the Chesapeake Bay. The Hoss is now an artificial reef off Ocean City, Maryland in the United States. There is no music or narration in…
