James McWilliams Blue Line

Tug Saratoga

The Saratoga was fitted out as a harbor, river and coastline tug.

I was a deckhand on the Saratoga the summer of 1957.

The most interesting activities were the trips up the Conn. River, passage through the Cape Cod Canal and docking-undocking ocean going freighters.

The highest anxiety activities were putting out and bringing in the hawser during rough water,  making U-turns in the River when suddenly running into fog banks on close-haul bridles and running with the tide in the Cape Code Canal.

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