we attend the twenty third annual two thousand and twelve seattle maritime festival and board the glen dine for the twenty eight tug boat races we are at the seattle maritime festival and this is a survival training and their time down putting our suits on and then swimming they did over all after a while from the maritime community  i didn't know which way was out or down at that time i think we i think we overtrained well right now i think i see your trainer down below the mast got down there i'll get a job and just a moment and that might be was a little bit of a tailwind and we do about thirty gallons an hour and we were eighteen hundred horsepower boys schneider drive tractor to test the tugs close to four hundred tonnes what else is there i guess fuel that's just just just let me call they're just diesel and we do thirty thirty gallons an hour from racing it might be about thirty five gallons an hour  so as it turns out and they got more people on board to find out what's going on next we're still waiting to find out the official results but in the meantime we're getting set up to go along the pier to head out some wa tried maybe next year maybe next year and the year after well i did notice that you guys have a number of posters from past festivals on your wall that's correct i think we've been here eight times now like all right well thank you guys thank you thank you and and maybe we'll see you again next year to know that you are right and with what little time we have left we'll check out a little bit more of the and also learn about them there are plenty of that here too so the quick and dirty old building competition is underway and the first  maritime industry here in seattle and most of it takes place on your property here where there are sixty six now harbor which is a port of seattle property that includes a cruise terminal a marina a conference facilities restaurants and  we put on this event here gives an opportunity to do a lot of other interesting things during the festival we've got right now the quick and dirty boat building competition earlier in the day we had survival suit races and tug boat races  after the festival is already underway or so we've just kind of around new events and over the years and we may continue to do that in the future they're also weather events that take place earlier in the week there was on tuesday be eight we had the maritime career day where we bring in maritime employers and maritime schools that teach the skills needed to do american jobs and get them to judge with people who are looking for jobs for students who may want to get a job in the maritime industry with future and we also had wednesday night sang original song or told an original story and it was a great event we had about one hundred twenty people present in the audience we had music and a lot of entertainment you played a great time and no seattle in the pacific northwest the maritime industry is a major employer in the region or to seattle itself is a major employer and we will bring a lot of we don't have as many direct employees as we just haven't gotten jobs that are generated but for the seattle activities and facilities so really the maritime industry the aviation industry and technology are really the three pillars of seattle i couldn't i couldn't hear i just i just heard the crowd going and the crowd has i guess  whether they are going to try to race it or not with right about now i don't even know what i'm what i've been here all day and the time doesn't have much meaning to me anymore so if people want more from older they can go to the website of the seattle propellor club yeah right there do that as kind of the important economic engine of the maritime industry in the in the area and we do that with a number of events over the course of the year we have granule seattle mariners maritime festival which is here today all day long all week long and then we also have an old golf tournament and a steamship dinner and of course if you want to learn more information on the web site is www dot  learn more about the seattle maritime festival on pier sixty six maybe seven through eleven with the family day and tug boat races on saturday may eleventh at seattle propellor club dot org learn more about seattle support and job opportunities at port seattle dot org please visit my archive page at seattle community media dot org slash node slash one two three seven four slash list shows on my website is being updated or shoot me an email and i'll send you the link and as always thank you for watching adventure t