It looks incredibly fast, but they were actually only making 5-6 knots with one frame every six seconds. This is a Panamax ship, 106 feet wide, and about 600 feet long with 32 feet of draft.

You can watch the whole 3 minute piece in HQ here.

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Cheoy Lee Shipyards built the boats with an output capacity of 4,800 horse power and a bollard pull of more than 60 metric tons each. Five new tugs enhance operations; more to arrive in 2010. Read the complete article here: Panama Canal Authority

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Captain Robert Perrault has been a member of our tugfest site since March 2008. He has sent us some pictures and a brief history of his tugboat “Hercules”.
She is a “ville class” tug built by Russell Brothers in 1944 as the “Listerville” and sent to Halifax as a “boom service” tug (opening and closing anti-submarine nets to [...]

The Coast Guard Ship “Samuel Risley” is in town to pick up supplies and buoys for the 2009 shipping season. This is her second visit to Parry Sound Base in the last week. This is always a welcome site, for it means that the long winter is finally over. We still have some [...]

David Meyers, member of Tugfest since Febuary 2007, is the owner of the Tug “Torville”. She is 37ft long with a 471 Detriot Diesel. For more great pictures of the interior go to our links and pull up “History of Russell Brothers Ltd” by Steve Briggs. This tug has been completely redone from top to bottom [...]

Captain Vollmer sent us a picture of the “Chippewa” with a little bit of history:
1936 Wm Lafontaine hull (Sandusky Ohio), Power Volvo TAMD 40. Just under 2 acres of varnish!! A service vessel to the Pelee Islands in Lake Erie. About 1980  she was purchased by Robert Kerr and transferred to the Canadian Remg.
Captain Vollmer had a big part [...]