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...Further reading: — The bank effect and the big boat blocking the Suez (FTAV) — Those boats in Texas paraded at the wrong speed (FTAV) — A resident of New Bern, NC, may in fact have a new boat (FTAV)...
...Are these a misspelt tribute to Tupac Shakur, I ask, and he winces, saying: “I captained a tug boat when I was younger.” Eventually we close on a squat, ferry-like shape, the 34m True North II....
...While the others heave, tug, shriek, he throws the boy the lifeline. “The sea is a great leveller,” Locke says. It is also, for many black artists, inescapably the site of the trauma of enslavement....
...Local boatman Luke Arch took us out for a tour of the harbour in his inflatable, around the anchored tugs and warships. “I’m a sea-gypsy, in boats since I was four,” he said....
...I still had that tug the moment I woke up, of wondering what had happened in the world while I was away and asleep; I felt an impulse to grab my phone and scan the tantalising wall of notifications, those...
...Videos posted on social media, which could not be verified, showed a naval vessel tilted to its side being towed by tug boats back to port....
...People briefed on the visit said the two sides had a “tug of war” about the wording of the memorandum, to find the right language on immigration, with Number 10 pushing for a tough line....
...The government has recently launched a renewed attack on the small boats. Now Westminster Council is taking on the big boats — the yacht-owning classes....
...Throw in a handheld line, feel a tug, pull up a large thrashing kingfish, red snapper or hamour fish in psychedelic colours. Repeat. Where’s the struggle in that?...
...In 1933, this vessel was the first single-engined boat to pass 100mph on salt water....
...This is most likely the first boat, and we the first people, it will have seen....
...ensemble in a human tug of war....
...She adores our cats; she’s less sure of the tortoise. When I saw the photograph of the little dog standing by a whitewashed wall in a country I had always loved, I felt a tug of hope....
...Sand comes up from the canal floor at a 4:1 ratio; if a ship drifts out of the fairway, it’s most likely to dig a shoulder into that sand and wait for a tug....
...Between the two, where the Grand Canal and the Giudecca channel merged in the basin of St Mark’s, was Venice’s most fascinating sight — its great busyness of boats, vaporetti and tugs and barges, taxis and...
...Hundreds of boats, small craft, barges and launches, rowers and scullers, crowding the river as they would have done in the time of the first Elizabeth....
...Rabie at the SCA said the boat had moved by about 4 metres on Saturday describing it as a “small and slow movement, but it is positive”....
...The Ever Given container ship, which is almost as long as the Empire State Building is tall, is wedged across the southern end of the canal, with tug boats engaged struggling to free it....
...The measure, explained by Russia as necessary during a period of military drills, threatens to choke Ukrainian commercial vessels in the region which rely on state-owned tug boats....
...Mooring lines dropped, we ease into the river, past cream and grey houses terraced up a hillside, past patrol ships in the Royal Navy dockyard and a dayglow-orange tug whose crew wave hello....
...Slow grace gives way to quick profit when the sun sets in thick rays on the grand ghostly sailing ship Temeraire and its soot-spewing tug, and a pale moon rises on a thin uncertain new world....
...I watched a woman in her sixties, her wetsuit pulled down to her waist and a rope over her shoulder, tug a sizeable boat on a wheeled trolley up the road. Our first business was lunch....
...Modernity, however, has mercifully not allowed for on-board engines; instead, each dahabiya is pulled by a tug in times of calm and propelled by wind whenever possible, the vast red-and-white sails unfurled...
...Kwykuti pilots the boat upriver to a waterfall, bringing a bow and arrow in the hope of spearing a fish....
...The Ukrainian navy claimed it gave all notifications required by international maritime rules before three of its vessels — a tug boat and two gunboats — left Odessa bound for an Azov Sea port....
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