Favorite Locations— June 2026 Photo Contest

Who do you think had the best photo from each brand?

  • RT— Todd Tugnut

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • RT— tlkenyon

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • CW— Garc11

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • RT— AKSpotting

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • RT— M/V REDEEMED

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • RT— Win Dee II

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • RT— GTilley

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • CW— Andre & Lisa

    Votes: 4 100.0%

  • SB— capnmorgan

    Votes: 3 75.0%

  • RT— RichBirk

    Votes: 1 25.0%

  • RT— cmwahl

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • RT— fidalgoisland

    Votes: 1 25.0%

  • RT— Rauguthj

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • RT— Steve S.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • RT— bob daily

    Votes: 2 50.0%

  • RT— AGLyme

    Votes: 1 25.0%

  • CW— DC3

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • CW— scross

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    4
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Christian Sommer

Christian Sommer

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Time for some show and tell!

Bring out your best photo for this month’s forum-wide photo contest! Our theme this month is “Favorite Locations.” Whether it’s an iconic anchorage, a cherished harbor, scenic passage or more, it's all about location. Submit your best photo of one of your favorite boating location for this month's photo contest!

To enter the contest, reply to this post with your photo, boat model, and a description about what's going on to accompany it. One photo/entry per user. The Photo Contest will be open until 8:00 AM PST on 6/22/2026. After all the submissions have been collected, factory personnel will vote on the winner.

One winner for each brand will be selected (Ranger Tugs, Cutwater, or Solara) and will win a $100 gift card to Boxer-Bay.com, the official Fluid Motion merch store, and get their winning photo proudly displayed on he Tugnuts homepage and Fluid Motion social media accounts!

Please Note:
This thread is for contest submissions only; replies which do not submit a picture for the contest will be moderated and promptly deleted. Once voting has started, you are not allowed to edit your entry.
 
This isn’t fair! One place? We’ve anchored, moored or docked in at least 200 different locations from Olympia to the Broughtons, Lake Powell and Columbia River over the past 13 seasons. This season alone we plan to overnight at 32 different places.
I could narrow it down to our top 10 locations but even that would be difficult. So, a random photo from one of our most loved locations - Prevost Harbor dock on Stuart Island. Photo shows Vicki adjusting her hiking poles. Lots of great walking trails on Stuart! We will be back there on Friday. (Yep, it’s Friday and we are on the dock!)
Suggestion for next months contest: “What’s the strangest or funkiest place you’ve ever overnighted?” We have been to that place!
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Jekyll Island, GA. We thought our Cutwater C32 was a big boat until we pulled into the Jekyll Harbor Marina during our spring ICW trip. We still had people stopping by to ask about our Cutwater. Jekyll is a great place spend a couple of days. The marina provides bikes, golf carts and a loaner car. We had a great time exploring the historical island.
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Connecticut River -
opposite Essex Harbor.
Rainy Memorial Day.
“Sweetie” - 31’ RT cb
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Our favorite spot on the Scuttlebutt a R-21 EC seams to be the fish cleaning station, does not matter which port we’re at, the crew gets cranky if we don’t visit it every day!
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Waking up to a peaceful morning sunrise on the water (pretty much anywhere) always makes for a favorite location. This one happens to be at Port Sidney in BC.
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Key West at the Galleon Marina. Met new friends, saw old friends. A month went fast!

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Sauvie Island, Columbia River, Oregon
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This is Snug at where I am sure will be a favorite spot for others...Princess Louisa Inlet. We were there in late May 2024 and there were only a couple of other boats on the dock. It really is a magical place.

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Christian Sommer said:
Time for some show and tell!

Bring out your best photo for this month’s forum-wide photo contest! Our theme this month is “Favorite Locations.” Whether it’s an iconic anchorage, a cherished harbor, scenic passage or more, it's all about location. Submit your best photo of one of your favorite boating location for this month's photo contest!

To enter the contest, reply to this post with your photo, boat model, and a description about what's going on to accompany it. One photo/entry per user. The Photo Contest will be open until 8:00 AM PST on 6/22/2026. After all the submissions have been collected, factory personnel will vote on the winner.

One winner for each brand will be selected (Ranger Tugs, Cutwater, or Solara) and will win a $100 gift card to Boxer-Bay.com, the official Fluid Motion merch store, and get their winning photo proudly displayed on he Tugnuts homepage and Fluid Motion social media accounts!

Please Note:
This thread is for contest submissions only; replies which do not submit a picture for the contest will be moderated and promptly deleted. Once voting has started, you are not allowed to edit your entry.
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We were on a mooring buoy at Montague Harbor. Hiked to the other side. A perfect nite, a perfect setting, a perfect experience. Kiorana, a Classic Ranger Tug 27. We still love her.
 

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I agree that there are so many "favorites" it isn't fair to choose only one. This is looking up Phillips Arm. Every time we go north or south, we take a trip into Phillips arm to see what we can see. So far the list includes grizzlies, black bears, deer, and elk. For this trip a couple years ago, it was a forest fire just beginning. Today you can see where it was, but it is recovering well.
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Returning home to Olympia at sunset on the sport bridge after a few beautiful summer hours cruising the South Sound. We love going up north on big adventures, but there's something to be said about the simple joy of throwing some snacks and drinks in the fridge, cruising over to a mooring ball or anchorage for a couple hours, and then heading back home. If you haven't visited the South Sound before, come check it out, especially in the off season when it's much more protected than most of the rest of the sound.
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Christian Sommer said:
Time for some show and tell!

Bring out your best photo for this month’s forum-wide photo contest! Our theme this month is “Favorite Locations.” Whether it’s an iconic anchorage, a cherished harbor, scenic passage or more, it's all about location. Submit your best photo of one of your favorite boating location for this month's photo contest!

To enter the contest, reply to this post with your photo, boat model, and a description about what's going on to accompany it. One photo/entry per user. The Photo Contest will be open until 8:00 AM PST on 6/22/2026. After all the submissions have been collected, factory personnel will vote on the winner.

One winner for each brand will be selected (Ranger Tugs, Cutwater, or Solara) and will win a $100 gift card to Boxer-Bay.com, the official Fluid Motion merch store, and get their winning photo proudly displayed on he Tugnuts homepage and Fluid Motion social media accounts!

Please Note:
This thread is for contest submissions only; replies which do not submit a picture for the contest will be moderated and promptly deleted. Once voting has started, you are not allowed to edit your entry.
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Princess Louisa Inlet is one of British Columbia's iconic locations. So rare to be there without any other boats! It was only a few hours before a floatplane and other vessels joined us at the dock, but for a little bit it felt like we had all the magic to ourselves. We love visiting the inlet in our 2019 Cutwater C30, listening to the sound of Chatterbox Falls in the background.
 
Yay, I can finally participate in these! As a new boat owner, we practiced boating, anchoring, tanning on the swim platform and blowing up the paddleboard on the boat this past weekend off the coast of the Long Island Sound, about 20 minutes outside of NYC. I think my favorite boating spots will be any location we get to continue to boat to safely. Enjoying this new experience! 2026 RT25-OB.
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Christian Sommer said:
Time for some show and tell!

Bring out your best photo for this month’s forum-wide photo contest! Our theme this month is “Favorite Locations.” Whether it’s an iconic anchorage, a cherished harbor, scenic passage or more, it's all about location. Submit your best photo of one of your favorite boating location for this month's photo contest!

To enter the contest, reply to this post with your photo, boat model, and a description about what's going on to accompany it. One photo/entry per user. The Photo Contest will be open until 8:00 AM PST on 6/22/2026. After all the submissions have been collected, factory personnel will vote on the winner.

One winner for each brand will be selected (Ranger Tugs, Cutwater, or Solara) and will win a $100 gift card to Boxer-Bay.com, the official Fluid Motion merch store, and get their winning photo proudly displayed on he Tugnuts homepage and Fluid Motion social media accounts!

Please Note:
This thread is for contest submissions only; replies which do not submit a picture for the contest will be moderated and promptly deleted. Once voting has started, you are not allowed to edit your entry.
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First trip of 2026 with our new R31 to Poets Cove on a beautiful morning!!
 

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Our exploration of the Puget Sound has only begun. Of the few places we have visited, Port Ludlow is at the top of our list.
 
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Salty Secrets 2026 R-27 duel OB Alaskan edition. Blackstone Glacier, Prince William Sound. Michelle and Jeff Lisonbee
 
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Yay, I can finally participate in these! As a new boat owner, we practiced boating, anchoring, tanning on the swim platform and blowing up the paddleboard on the boat this past weekend off the coast of the Long Island Sound, about 20 minutes outside of NYC. I think my favorite boating spots will be any location we get to continue to boat to safely. Enjoying this new experience! 2026 RT25-OB. View attachment 27692
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Congrats on new boat !! I too just purchased a RT25 in the PNW. I'm curious about your inflatable SUP - where do you stow it when underway? ... if it's still inflated. Or do you deflate, roll up, and stow away? Mine is 11.5' long. terribly inconvenient to stow on top racks if there's any wind at all it becomes a sail while strapping it down. Too salty to deflate and stow - although I COULD. anyway.... curious. thank you. Holly
 
Christian Sommer said:
Time for some show and tell!

Bring out your best photo for this month’s forum-wide photo contest! Our theme this month is “Favorite Locations.” Whether it’s an iconic anchorage, a cherished harbor, scenic passage or more, it's all about location. Submit your best photo of one of your favorite boating location for this month's photo contest!

To enter the contest, reply to this post with your photo, boat model, and a description about what's going on to accompany it. One photo/entry per user. The Photo Contest will be open until 8:00 AM PST on 6/22/2026. After all the submissions have been collected, factory personnel will vote on the winner.

One winner for each brand will be selected (Ranger Tugs, Cutwater, or Solara) and will win a $100 gift card to Boxer-Bay.com, the official Fluid Motion merch store, and get their winning photo proudly displayed on he Tugnuts homepage and Fluid Motion social media accounts!

Please Note:
This thread is for contest submissions only; replies which do not submit a picture for the contest will be moderated and promptly deleted. Once voting has started, you are not allowed to edit your entry.
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A surreal cruise through the mirror-like Great Dismal Swamp Canal aboard our Ranger Tug R-29 CB, “ALIGARO.” Nothing else quite like it on America’s Great Loop.
 

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While on our Great Loop adventure.
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Nellie May near the Statue of Liberty on her Great Loop adventure.
 
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