Thursday, April 9, 2009

The Henry Hild




The Henry Hild is, I believe, the only active wooden workboat in New York harbor. A WWII vintage Navy boat, it was bequeathed to John Barron by the late sailmaker, Henry Hild. It is seen here on a mooring at Barron's boatyard on the east side of City Island.

Barron's is one of the handful of yards to which you can entrust a wooden boat - like my North River 2 - an L. Francis Herreshoff-designed Buzzards Bay 14 built in 1985 at The Boat School in Eastport, Maine.

3 comments:

buddydon said...

hey thar, george,

thankee fer droppin by to my blog n thankee fer the lank to susans pitchers. i kin only hope to be as good as she is!

yers
bd

Unknown said...

I never knew John Barron, but I know Jason.

Anonymous said...

riverkeeper has a wooden boat. let me hunt down the foto i took and info i squirreled away for a day such as this.