The Seattle Maritime Festival with all it’s seafaring glory concluded yesterday with the tugboat races, a fireboat display, a chowder cook-off and wooden-boat building for kids. You can read more about the annual event here: Seattle Propeller Club. There is also a good story in the local news: Seattle Maritime Festival: All hands on deck [...]

A Seattle based builder, Foss Maritime, has developed the Prius of tugboats, which consumes less diesel and generates less pollution by using batteries for all the vessel’s low-power needs.
Outwardly, it looks much like other tugboats. Inside, the tug is so different that it will be able to operate like a regular work boat while using [...]