Like a white winged dove - Stevie Nicks - 1983

Edge of Seventeen

Jon Gelman Photography: Maine Lobster Fishing Port

Jon Gelman Photography: Maine Lobster Fishing Port: "Captured on a D700, 1/5 sec., ISO 200, f/18, 195 mm, HDR."

Buzzards Bay 14 for sale

Not mine.  But one just like my North River 2  - built at the Boat School, Eastport Maine.  Details HERE

Issuma: bound for Toronto, her winter port

Richard Hudson and Issuma are northbound to Toronto for the winter- on the inside.  The route is, I assume, the shortest: Hudson River -Erie Canal - Oswego Canal - Lake Ontario.  Tugster and Bowsprite did a leg of it - up to Catskill, where Rosemary Ruth will winter and, hopefully, find a buyer.

Issuma and Rosemary Ruth rafted up in Catskill

Richard and Gabriela - loyal crew

Next summer Richard hopes to head east - and north.  Maybe Greenland - if all works out.


This spring he started out in the Rio Plata - Uruguay and Argentina, and made his way north - single handed the great bulk of the way to New York.  From there it was northbound, up the Labrador coast and over to Baffin Island.  All photos by Will Van Dorp

The Hudson River

What's the hardest thing about learning Chinese?

Tones or characters?  I give up.

John F. Kennedy - the Staten Island Ferry

thanks to Bowsprite

John F. Kennedy

Commission Date: 1965
Builder: Levingston Shipbuilding, TX
Length: 277′ (84.4m)
Width: 69′ (21m)
Draft: 19’1″ (5.8m)
Gross Tonnage: 2109
service speed: 16 knots (30 km/h)
crew: 13
Passengers: 3500 / (40 vehicles, pre 9/11)
Propulsion: Diesel Electric 600 volts DC
Engines: GM-EMD-567C16 (x4)
Horsepower: 6500 (4.8 MW)

The Big Oyster: WNYC interviews Mark Kurlansky

New York City was the Big Oyster - the oyster capital of the world.  Oyster stands used to dot New York like push cart food vendors do today.  And the selfish were local products too.  Here is Mark Kulansky the brilliant author of The Big Oyster, Cod, and Salt to talk about it all on WNYC.

Columbus Day - new moon - high tide on the Back River

Pescadotes: Open Ocean Storm

from Pescadotes

Waiting for Judge Jesse: In Food Court, Restaurants High and Low Are Equals - NYTimes.com

In Food Court, Restaurants High and Low Are Equals - NYTimes.com