Tug of war to compete sporadically starting in the 1960s and would become regular participants as sorority teams in the mid-1980s. The Hope College Pull is an annual tug-of-war contest held across the Black River in Holland, Michigan on the fourth Saturday after Labor Day. Competitors are 40 members of the freshman and sophomore classes. Two teams of eight, whose total mass must not exceed a maximum weight as determined for the class, align themselves at the end of a rope approximately in circumference. The rope is marked with a "centre line" and two markings to either side of the centre line. The
Atlantic Spruce (tug) Atlantic Spruce (tug) Atlantic Spruce is a fire fighting tug with a Robert Allan Design tug made from steel, equipped with fire fighting (FIFI-1) The original Atlantic Spruce was the first tug of her kind built in Georgetown PEI. Since her launch, there have been many tugs built with the same design and "Atlantic Spruce" continues the Irving-owned Atlantic Towing tradition of naming their tugs after trees; "Atlantic Fir", "Atlantic Hemlock", "Atlantic Cedar", "Atlantic Oak", and "Atlantic Willow". "Atlantic Spruce" was first built in January 1995 at the East Isle shipyard in Georgetown, PEI, by J.D. Irving Limited. She was