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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.
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3 comments:

  1. buddydonApril 9, 2009 at 3:38 PM

    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

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  2. UnknownApril 10, 2009 at 5:44 AM

    I never knew John Barron, but I know Jason.

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  3. AnonymousApril 11, 2009 at 5:26 AM

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

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