For the first time since before the pandemic, the South Street Seaport Museum is offering public rides on the W.O. Decker, the last wooden tug built in New York City.
It’s a trip back in time to when steam tugboats were a common sight in the New York Harbor.
The Decker was constructed in Long Island City in 1930 when there were many more like it working the harbor.
“She’s now diesel, but even her diesel engine now, which was converted a couple of decades after she was built, is quite an antique, so she is still very much an early 20th century tug,” said Captain Jonathan
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