Picture by Will van Dorp via tugster.wordpress.com
Dunno source via tugster.wordpress.com
Hackensack
IMO : n/a
Build : 1953 by Higgins Co., New Orleans, La in the USA, nr 11977
Quit an artistic paintjob, this one…although paintjob: apparently it’s a sticker-job! Done for a noble cause (see www.portraitsofhope.org), with good intensions: it’s still a freaking ugly paintjob to look at….even if it is called Art.
Picture by Bonnie via frogma.blogspot.com
Bonnie who took above picture also used the word peacockification for it…veryveryvery appropriate!
And here she is after a partial “de-peacockification” (word stolen from Will this time)
Picture by Will van Dorp via tugster.wordpress.com
Thanks to Christina (Bowsprite) who tipped me to Tugster, who directed me to Frogma.
And if I’m correct is this how she looked before the whole arty thing started:
Muuuuuuch better this way!
SeaBart! I LIKE this one! I just did my living room in this scheme!!! haarrumpf.
It was definitely entertaining, but it was terribly, terribly frivolous for a dignified workboat! Sorta like a draft horse dolled up like My Little Pony, y’know?
Nice project tho.
Strange that it looked nice on the cabs and even on that airplane, but indeed to frivolous on a tug.
I like the pony comparison
My first tug from Toys-R-Us !
will van dorp THANK YOU for a great web site long time admirer and lover of TUGS i so enjoy your love of all things maritime……RICK O’SHEA