Back River - Half Tide

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Stones Point Plan of Partition

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‘The Mortal Sea’ | On Point with Tom Ashbrook

‘The Mortal Sea’ | On Point with Tom Ashbrook: "“The Mortal Sea.” A ship’s captain turned scholar tracks our impact on the oceans through time.

Rachel Carson, author of “Silent Spring,” was no mean observer of the natural world.  But on one huge front, she was wrong.  Mankind, she wrote in 1951, could never subdue and plunder the wide ocean as it had the lands of Earth.

Well, look around, says my guest today.  And look way back.  Even in the long age of sail, of little wooden boats and tall-masted ships, humans were leaving a deep imprint on the vast seas.  Hauling in catches so great they ate away at the sea’s capacity to renew and replenish.  It’s all utterly relevant now.

This hour, On Point:  the age of sail and the “mortal sea.”

-Tom Ashbrook

Guests

W. Jeffrey Bolster, author of “The Mortal Sea: Fishing The Atlantic In The Age Of Sail,” associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire in Durham and a licensed shipmaster."


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Disembarking the Oleander = Sandy Hook Pilots

Sacha is a launch operator for Sandy Hook Pilots.  the yacht America was a Snady Hook Pilot Schooner.  Delivering a pilot and picking up are the most dramatic and dangerous.

Captain Jack - towing and salvage in Brooklyn waters

Captain Jack Schachner - White Cap Marine Towing & Salvage, Inc. - Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn

Captain Jack, as he is universally known at Gateway Marina in Sheepshead Bay, is a professional boat salvager and, along with his brother, Capt. Bernie Schachner, is a co-owner of White Cap Marine Towing and Salvage Inc. Summer is their busy season.

Capt'n Jack and h8s cue 

He waits for warm weather to lure New Yorkers seeking relief on yachts, motorboats, sailboats, kayaks and Jet Skis. Then he waits for them to get themselves in trouble.

Indecision

Waiting for Indecision to fuel up at the Friendship Lobstermen's Co-Op

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Moby Dog

James J. Muldoon paddles on the Back River, East Friendship, Maine
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Sail Ho, or Sail No? The Debate on Sail Training at the Maritime Academies | gCaptain ⚓ Maritime & Offshore News

Navy 44s round the leeward mark

Sail Ho, or Sail No? The Debate on Sail Training at the Maritime Academies | gCaptain ⚓ Maritime & Offshore News:

By Art Pine, images by Robert Almeida

Step aboard a naval vessel these days, and you quickly see a stunning breadth of high-technology equipment. Navigating? Today’s ship is the province of GPS receivers and computers.  Posting a lookout? That task is handled largely by satellites and sophisticated radar. The helm is highly automated. And nuclear power is the propulsion of choice.

So why bother training today’s officer candidates on sailing vessels?

The debate has been going on for decades, intensifying with each advance in shipboard technology. In the latest go-around, Vice Admiral Jeffrey L. Fowler, the U.S. Naval Academy’s superintendent from mid-2007 to August 2010, raised hackles by trimming the sail-training program there, reducing opportunities for midshipmen to take part...

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Sunset on the Palisades

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