Photos by Tag: tug
Built in Anacortes
The Tan’erliq, built by Dakota Creek Industries in 1999, is outfitted for tanker escort services, ship handling and firefighting, as well as emergency and spill response. These photos were taken in August 2019 and January 2023.
Tug with character lines
Tug “Paula S” anchored at Lovric boat yard on the Guemes Channel. If this vessel could talk, what stories she would tell…
Tug hull sees daylight
View of a section of a Crowley tug hull. The vessel is up in the air for maintenance at Dakota Creek Industries in downtown Anacortes.
Nautical numbers
Textures, hull section on vessel YT809, a tug being built by Dakota Creek Industries in Anacortes.
Barbara Foss passes by: 2005
I love tugboats. This beauty, the Foss tug “Barbara Foss,” churned past Curtis Wharf on the Guemes Channel on September 1, 2005.
Shoreline before cleanup 2004
A 2004 scene from the shoreline of Fidalgo Bay in downtown Anacortes. This shoreline, including beach and uplands, was restored in a public/private cleanup partnership led by the Port of Anacortes.
Recreation & commerce
In this classic Anacortes scene, a recreational Nordic Tug passes by a working tugboat, the Andrew Foss. Foss tugs routinely escort oil tankers in and out of berths at the Tesoro and Shell refineries on March Point.
Windshield wash
There’s no drive-through option for a tugboat such as the “Chief,” tied up at Port of Anacortes’ Curtis Wharf. This pilothouse windshield was washed and rinsed of saltwater grime the old fashioned way. Most of the vessel is not visible below the deck line.
On the waterfront
If you look carefully at this photograph, you’ll see a Dakota Creek employee taking a rather steep set of stairs to work on the “Aware,” a Crowley tug undergoing repairs at the shipyard on the Guemes Channel. Most early morning activity in downtown Anacortes takes place indoors as business owners prepare for their day. Dakota […]