Shark Tug

[Knot Finishe]

My wife and I were watching the hockey game between the Vancouver Canucks and the San Jose Sharks last Monday. As is often seen on televised sports, a camera crew was dispatched to take some from-the-air footage of the home team's city. Not sure just where the boats were moored, but there was a red Ranger swinging on its anchor and looking very cosmopolitan with the city lights brightly shining.
Didn't help the Canucks at all though - they lost.

John

 

[Newtugnut]

We were anchored in False Creek, on the Easter Monday BUT we are a blue hull and we left by around 10:30 AM

Didn't see another Ranger anchored.

Frank & Dawn-Marie
Blue Horizons R31

 

[Knot Finishe]

Oops - I see that I forgot to mention it was played in San Jose and the camera crew was over a harbour there. I see by the map that the San Jose arena is nowhere near the water, and in fact San Jose's waterfront seems to be largely marshy sloughs. I wonder where they were filming.

John

 

[kjgregson]

Keith was watching a Canucks game recently, and he too noticed a Ranger Tug, calling me to come see it. The night he saw it they were playing at home and if was definitely a shot of False Creek. When we saw it the weather wasn't the same as the footage they were showing, so they must use some stock footage with great weather. False Creek is a beautiful anchorage, Sand Dollar anchored there last Saturday night and such a scenic spot. Missed you by a couple of days Frank & Dawn Marie. Definitely some urban boating at it's best.

 

[Knot Finishe]

Another night, another town...

The Canucks were playing in Calgary last night, so of course the televising network included some footage of boats bobbing in False Creek (how's your waterfront, Calgary?) I'm quite sure that a permanently mounted camera near GM Place produces footage used in their out of town productions. At any rate, last night had a nice time-lapse shot of a red-hulled R-31 without a flybridge swinging at anchor - perhaps visiting from West Van.

John