79 Street boat basin redesign ok'd

https://www.westsiderag.com/2024/12/17/uws-boat-basin-redesign-clears-another-hurdle

All My Love- Dick Van Dyke at 98 with Cold Play

This backyard video with 98 y.o. Dick Van Dyke produced by Cold Play, whose lead singer Chris Martin is on piano, is a delight.

 

the first fibreglass sailboat :a Herreshoff

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/JPwNRpPXoLPTXs92/

Northstar Voyager

Spotted this vessel  northbound on the North River outside our window yesterday.  I checked it on Marinetraffic.com  and found my way to Northstar Marine and this story of its acquisition for east coast offshore wind power work.

An Artistic Celebration of Paul Robeson’s Legacy | Rutgers University Foundation

An Artistic Celebration of Paul Robeson’s Legacy | Rutgers University Foundation

An experiment in sailing in a gale

 Yachting Monthly (UK)

https://youtu.be/v1W5wW2CybA?si=04Lm-A9UZBz22EO8

Researchers Find Cannibalized Victim of 19th-Century Arctic Voyage - The New York Times

Researchers Find Cannibalized Victim of 19th-Century Arctic Voyage - The New York Times A new study offers clues to a 179-year-old mystery that killed more than 100 explorers on the Franklin expedition in the Canadian Arctic.

Wharves - Friendship, Maine

 

Carter's Wharf, Hatchet Cove

The old fuel dock from the Town Landing

Wallace's - evening

Town Landing, winter

Clara -boatyard dog

Redfish heads - from Iceland

BrAvery

Local bait - pogies

Traps, shed, clouds

Traps, bait shed

No picnicking

Salt

A good day's haul

Monhegan skiff

Blueberry muffins

Ulysses race, Jesse's ride

Ticonderoga

Ticonderoga is the masterpiece of L. Francis Herreshoff who designed my little boat 

Here it is at the dock of its HomePort, Indian Harbor Yacht Club, Greenwich, CT.