Thursday, September 17, 2015

Great North River Tugboat Race and Skills Contest, 9/6/2015


Ha ha ha. "Cheerybabble resumes tomorrow", she said on Sunday, completely forgetting about how work gets in the middle of September, ha ha ha.

So I'll just change the order a little bit here and put Sunday of Labor Day Weekend first instead of going in date order. I went through my photos last night and put them up in a Flickr album - didn't caption yet but it's basically the race, the bow-to-bow pushing, the last competitor in the line toss contest, and then the spinach eating contests - didn't get much of the kids but Mandy and I had front-row seats for the adults and as usual, it wasn't pretty, but it was tons of fun!

Album ends with a dog ready for the mascot contest and a sailboat enjoying the quieting river. Click here to visit the album.

Terrific work as always by the Working Harbor Committee. Missed Capt. John Doswell but I know he would've been glad to see all of us out there having another great day celebrating the working boats of NY Harbor.

8 comments:

Jackie said...

I live in NJ and have heard about these races, but never have attended one. Now I want to go! Your pics are GREAT!

bonnie said...

Come on out next year, this is always a blast!

Paula Kiger said...

Okay, now THIS looks pretty awesome!!!

pia said...

It does look awesome. And why does Labor Day feel like a month ago?

bonnie said...

It IS awesome!

And Pia, I can't answer that questions but I think I was asking myself some kind of corollary this morning: "Why is everything due in September?"

Andapo said...

Looks like tons of fun(:

JP said...

Cool photos - looks like a nice day for it.

JP said...

Cool photos - looks like a nice day for it.