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This article presents information regarding Sea Breeze, a "Red Stack" tugboat. Authors went to work for Red Stack, the nickname for the Puget Sound Tug and Barge Co., in 1966, working the Seattle waterfront as a deckhand. Over the first year they sailed "outside" tugs to Alaska and down to San Francisco and inside on the harbor tugs handling ship-assist. Late that year they were assigned to the oil barge run aboard the Sea Breeze. Over the years they went on to other tugs, faster and more powerful ones they called screamers. New steel hulls, captains out for a reputation, no fooling around.