Where to hear maritime music:
Check the Maritime Musings column (by Alice Winship) in the online Victory Review. This column attempts to give a full list of maritime concerts and chantey sings in Western Washington.
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Check the Maritime Musical Wanderings blog (by Chris Glanister) at the Three Sheets Northwest site.
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The Northwest Seaport Chantey Sing in Seattle, WA (for all ages), usually on the second Friday of every month.
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The Budd Bay Shanty Sing in Olympia, WA, usually on the first Sunday of every month.
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The Three Rivers Folklife Song Circle in Richland, WA, usually on the second Saturday of every month.
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The Victoria Nautical Song Circle in Victoria, BC.
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The Vancouver Folk Song Society in Vancouver, BC.
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The Port Gamble Maritime Music Festival, an annual event every August.
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Where to take children to see a tugboat:
Tugboat Story Time on the Arthur Foss, a free, drop-in event on the second and fourth Thursdays of every month. Check the Northwest Seaport event calendar.
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The Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival, every year on the Fourth of July weekend, offers free tours of all kinds of boats. This is the best place to hear the Arthur Foss engine running, as heard in the last track on the Northwest Tugboat Tales CD. There are activities for children, like toy boat building.
Where to go to tour a tugboat:
The Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival, every year on the Fourth of July weekend, offers free tours of all kinds of boats. This is the best place to hear the Arthur Foss engine running, as heard in the last track on the Northwest Tugboat Tales CD.
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Olympia Harbor Days, every Labor Day weekend.
Where to find more information about the ARTHUR FOSS:
The Arthur Foss is a historic 1889 tugboat, owned by the non-profit organization Northwest Seaport. The Arthur Foss is docked at the Historic Ships Wharf at Lake Union Park in Seattle.
Where to find more information online about tugboats:
If you want to find more information online about tugboats, try searching for 'marine towing' (and the name of a port city if you want to limit your search). Most of these websites are geared towards someone who actually wants something towed, but many sites have photo galleries of their tugs, or a history of their company.
A few of the many tugboat companies in the Northwest:
Please email us at info@maritimefolknet.org with names of other marine towing companies to add to this list.
Boyer Towing
Brusco Tug & Barge
Crowley Maritime
Dunlap Towing Co.
Foss
Fremont Tugboat Co.
Hodder Tugboat Co.
Island Tug & Barge
Northland Service
Old Tacoma Marine (repair of heavy-duty diesel engines)
Olympic Tug & Barge
Tidewater
Western Towboat Co.
Museums and Organizations:
Northwest Seaport owns the historic tugboat Arthur Foss and hosts a monthly Chantey Sing, and a maritime concert series.
Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society has thousands of historical photos and other documents concerning Northwest tugboats.
MOHAI (Museum of History and Industry) also has an extensive photo collection.
Tugboat Enthusiasts Society
International Retired Tugboat Association
Columbia River Maritime Museum
Foss Waterway Seaport
Fisher Poets Gathering
Photos and books about tugs
Western Isles
Tugboats on Puget Sound (Images of America)
Foss Maritime Company (Images of America)
Foss: Ninety Years of Towboating
Flickr: Log Booms
Flickr: Workboats and Tugboats
Flickr: Puget Sound Tugboats
Flickr: Tugboats
