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A Boom Tug Yacht

by John MacFarlane 2019

The boom tug (Photo from the Michael Monteith collection.)

Michael Monteith recently sent me images of his boom tug yacht. He was hoping to learn more about the identity and origin of it.

The S. Madill Co. builder’s plate on Moteith’s vessel (Photo from the Michael Monteith collection.)

His whole towing package (Photo from the Michael Monteith collection.)

The S. Madill Co. was located in Nanaimo BC and constructed a large number of vessels. They particularly produced a large number of boom boats. The list of vessel constructed by them can be found at Vessels Built by S. Madill Co.

To quote from this article please cite:

MacFarlane, John (2019) A Boom Tug Yacht. Nauticapedia.ca 2019. http://nauticapedia.ca/Gallery/Dozer_tug.php

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