From the category archives:

Towing

Multi Tow Contest, current leader

Well, the piddly little triple tow picture I posted the other day has been put into perspective. What a fool I was to even post such a meager accomplishment as that. Capt. Lee over at Poseidon Towing and Salvage has done a bunch of muliple tows. My favorite was this one: Thats 5 sail boats [...]

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March 23, 2008 Read the full article →

Don’t Try This at Home

Here is one that I bet most of you haven’t tried. The story on this picture is that I was on my way up to Malibu (about 10 miles from MDR) to pick up a boat for a customer at the end of the season. He anchors his boat off the beach in front of [...]

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March 21, 2008 Read the full article →

More From the Strange & Weird Tow Archives

Well, the picture of me towing the ultra-light airplane generated some responses. So far, my favorite is this one. Not only did Richard Rodriguez from VAAA Friday Harbor tow an airplane, he was HIPPED UP to it! Great picture Richard.

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March 20, 2008 Read the full article →

From the weird and strange tow archives

How many of you can claim you towed an airplane? OK, this was a small ultralight, but still, it counts..Send me a photo of your weird tows, and I’ll post them

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March 3, 2008 Read the full article →

UPDATE: Tandem tow anyone?

Remember this blog I posted back in August about the two boats needing assistance, and the story that one boat got left behind and a family spent the night in the water? Here is a quote from the original story: Shortly before 4 p.m. Aug. 18, a commercial salvage company had been assisting two vessels [...]

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December 20, 2007 Read the full article →

File under “Challenging Tows”

Here is a picture of the USCGC DEPENDABLE towing the Nantucket Shoal Buoy, which was blown off station by storm NOEL…imagine the difficulty just getting the towline hooked up between a large steel buoy and a 210′ Cutter? How fast can you tow a buoy? The crew of the DEPENDABLE did an excellent job of [...]

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November 12, 2007 Read the full article →

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