I love tugboats. This beauty, the Foss tug “Barbara Foss,” churned past Curtis Wharf on the Guemes Channel on September 1, 2005.
I hurried to the dock at Randy’s Pier 61 to watch a tanker and tugs motor past, and was surprised to find the Garth Foss and Lindsey Foss conducting a mid-channel turnaround instead. Within minutes, the two tug crews had pushed and pulled what I believe to be a petroleum coke vessel so that the […]
A Foss tug lies at anchor near Cap Sante in Fidalgo Bay. In the background is Mt. Baker, where early snow has winter recreationists ecstatic.