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In my 50 years working on tug boats on the Puget Sound and adjacent waters, I’ve seen some interesting things. One late night coming out of Bellingham with one barge in tow, the water was glowing. Every wavelet as far as I could see was glowing, as if it had a light bulb in it. The tow wire underwater all the way to the barge was glowing white. The barge looked like it was riding on a carpet of light. Any fish that was moving in the water was like a light bulb on the move. In Saratoga Passage b...
What follows is from a memoir, “Tug Boat Life,” soon to be published by Gerald Bell about his 50 years working on tug boats. My first few months of work for Dunlap Towing were spent towing logs. One night we were departing Port Ludlow on the tug Vulcan with a tow that had several extra boom sticks tied along side. The sticks were fanned out from the tow, and we decided they needed to be tied in tight. The captain let me off on the tow with a pike pole and a flashlight and some tie line and con...
