Tugboats, Tugboats, Tugboats: Hodder Breeze

Tugboats, the semi's of the ocean. They pass Powell River pulling logbooms, construction barges, scows of hogfuel and chips for the local paper mill, train barges, barges loaded with
semi-trailers and chemical tankers and more. And I take their pictures as they pass.

Here you will find some of the photos I have taken of those tugboats as they pull their tows up and down Malaspina Strait and the surrounding waters. Big ones and little ones, good looking tugs and some not so.
I like them all, and if you like tugs - including tugs converted to other uses - I invite you to have a look.

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Hodder Breeze

Hodder Breeze - 2020-12-15

Hodder Breeze - the last time she was here, in 2012, she was the Storm Breeze (bottom), a Ledcor Transportation boat. She was purchased by Hodder Tug in 2019 and they renamed her the Hodder Breeze. Despite the time span, she was doing the same job, hauling the City Transfer drop-trailer barge between Richmond and Powell River and back. She was born as the Evco Breeze, for Ocean Cement.

Length: 19.29m Breadth: 6.22m Draft: 2.99m Power: 760 BHP Year Built: 1964