Tug & Barge Project Focus of Web Design Firm's Home Page

May 10, 2012 - PRLog -- Tug Pegasus (http://tugpegasus.org) and the Waterfront Museum Barge (http://www.waterfrontmuseum.org/) are in the running for a $250,000 voters' choice grant. American Express, partnering with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has committed $3 million in preservation grants to historic places in New York City through its community-based program, Partners in Preservation (http://www.partnersinpreservation.com/) (PIP).

Fast Smart Web Design is helping promote the project by featuring Tug & Barge photos by Jeffrey Anzevino on the company's home page. The Anzevino banner and photos will be up from April 26 to May 21, the voting period.

The tugboat Pegasus was built in 1907 as S. O. Co. No. 16, for the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. She joined the fleet of McAllister Brothers Towing in 1953; they converted her to diesel power and renamed her the John E. McAllister. In 1987 Hepburn bought her and renamed her Pegasus. She continued actively towing for another 10 years. The tug joined the National Register of Historic Places and became a floating museum and classroom in 1997.

The Waterfront Museum was founded in 1986 to provide educational and cultural programs aboard an historic vessel and to advocate for and expand public waterfront access in the NY metropolitan area.

The Museum is housed aboard the Lehigh Valley Railroad Barge #79, built in 1914. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is the only floating wooden covered barge of its kind restored and ready to receive visitors. It is usually berthed in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Jeff Anzevino has been taking photographs since 1976.  But with the establishment in 2008 of Anzevino Photography, he turned his hobby to a passion and small business and his lens toward tugboats and high quality maritime art.

Jeff’s photos have been published in Bouchard Transportation’s newsletter, Boating on the Hudson, and the Poughkeepsie Journal, and his work has been presented at the South Street Seaport, Hudson River Maritime Museum, and Ossining Public Library.

With a collection of over 30,000 images shot between 2008 and the present, he has amassed a comprehensive archive of Hudson River tugboat photos. These photos illustrate what may be the world's largest assortment of tugboat calendars with over 20 different “2012 Tugspotting on the Hudson” calendars for sale. 

From his Sunfish sailboat in 1991 Jeff began photographing tugboats steaming past Poughkeepsie.  He honed his skill in single handing the non-motorized sailboat safely into position to capture with a Nikon 35mm camera the power of tugs and ships framed by the Mid-Hudson Bridge and Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge.  Jeff’s technique was featured in an article in Boating on the Hudson magazine.

He is also the founder in 1993 of the Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association and a musician playing resophonic guitar. He is an avid sailor, bicyclist, hiker, kayaker, cook, and gardener.

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