Hudson River Tugboat Day & Evening presentation: Hudson River Tugboats

Celebrate the hardest working boats on the waterways at Hudson River Tugboat Day on Saturday, June 23, at Beczak Environmental Education Center.

Hudson River Tugboat Day activities are all free but for the evening RiverTalks, and all take place at Beczak Environmental Education Center and the Yonkers Pier, just two blocks away. Free and secure parking at Beczak

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Enjoy the Disney classic Little Toot about “the little tug that could"
Explore how tugboats work and make your own out of recycled material
Take a dockside tour of the Pegasus at the Yonkers Pier

 4:00 – 5:00 PM

Take a 1-hour ride on the Pegasusdeparting the Yonkers Pier. Participants are limited to the first 49 to register. Contact  Eva at weekends@beczak.org  / (914) 377-1900, ext. 13.

Hudson River Tugboats, a RiverTalks presentation by Pamela Hepburn, Captain of the Pegasus. June 23 @ 7 PM. $10 / $5 for students, teachers, and seniors, includes refreshments.

No one knows the Pegasus like Pamela Hepburn--she lived on board with her daughter for several years! In Hudson River Tugboats, Hepburn gives a brief history of tugboats in the New York Harbor and their continuing importance today as well as tells her own story of working her way from tugboat cook and deckhand to captain, then purchasing the hundred year old 

Located at:
35 Alexander St.
Yonkers, NY 10701
1 Block west of Yonkers, Metro North train station

Tel: 914-377-1900

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