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.

At the Tom Verlaine Book Sale - Alex Abramovich - LRBlog

 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0z32mdsmzktsv06fa8v55/At-the-Tom-Verlaine-Book-Sale.docx?rlkey=kciq5br264k7w88l058fxqdwe&dl=0

Why did Bayesian sink? >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News: Providing sailing news for sailors

Why did Bayesian sink? >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News: Providing sailing news for sailors

Why did it sink?

Bayesian was a massive sailing yacht with one of the tallest masts in yachting history, a 246-foot pole that would have commanded attention even if it hadn’t been illuminated at a peaceful anchorage just north of Sicily on Sunday night.

Mike Lynch, the owner, a British tech billionaire who had been compared to both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, was onboard, celebrating his acquittal on fraud charges that could have sent him to prison for 20 years. He was joined by members of his family, two of the lawyers who defended him, and an investment banker who had provided helpful testimony.

Felicity - a steel staysail sloop