Clearwater - drydock and repairs

The famous Hudson river sloop Clearwater has undergone extensive repairs and refitting - including re-planking- in drydock up river.  There is an excellent photo essay by John Sperr posted HERE courtesy of Tugster.

Everest Summit Attempt for Challenged Athletes Foundation

Greg Hancock, who works with Marilyn for Parade, has joined an Everest project.  His goal is to reach the historic Mt. Everest base camp - 18,500 feet.   Some plan to attempt the summit.  Paul and Denise Fejtek are trying for the summit.  You can follow them on their blog Seven Summits for CAF.  An interview is below.
This site will through the magic of Google Earth show where on the mountain the trekkers are now.

Oyster-tekture - re-imagining New York Harbor - Rising Currents - MOMA

 

Oystertekture is a project of Scape, a New York landscape architecture firm which is part of Rising Currents - Projects for New York's Waterfront now at MOMA.  I loved Oystertekture for its vision of restoring the Gowanus Canal as a seed farm for oysters, designing new oyster reefs for the Bay Ridge Flats  along the Buttermilk Channel south of Governor's Island - the City's newest park.

Bluefin Trevally

from Pescadotes

The Hudson - America's River - by Frances Dunwell

Author and conservationist Frances Dunwell 's dramatic tales will bring to life the stories of visionary people who changed the direction of our national history, inspired by their deep relationship with the river. Using images of Hudson River School paintings, maps and period engravings, she captures the spirit of the river through the eyes of its many admirers.  She recounts how the Hudson River powered the growth of the country's greatest industrial and financial empire and also produced leading American artists, writers, engineers, and environmentalists. She makes the case for conserving the Hudson as a source of creative inspiration and demonstrates that the river continues to be a creative force today.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has praised Dunwell's "wonderful stories about America's river," and her "beautifully written book." 

All royalties from sale of the book are being donated to the Natural Heritage Trust for conservation of the river.

The book is available directly from the publisher, Columbia University Press

USCGC Escanaba calls at Pier 17, NY

A friendly Port visit by the US Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba.  Watercolor left and photos thanks to Bowsprite.

Li'l tug that could: spring on the St. George River

Time to put the docks back in the water on the swift flowing St. George River at Thomaston, Maine.  "The river has puked and the ice is out" says Jeff Armstrong of Jeff's Marine.  The last big nor'easter carried lots of dead fall down river - so it's safe to put the docks back in.  A 12 foot Carolina Skiff is just the right tool for the job.

Across the river is Lyman Morse - builders of dream yachts for hedge fund guys and fixer-uppers of just about anything you bring to the yard.  They're a 100 year old yard, after all.

At Jeff's you'll find skiffs to 26 feet, service with a smile, and hear the bell ring every time he makes a sale. Slide show HERE

Kathryn's fish

Now that is a fish!  A Chinook salmon, I think. Caught on a river in Chilean Patagonia by Kathryn Armstrong. She and her Dad Jeff must have been the only tourists who arrived in Chile the week after the quake.

North River 2 - a Buzzards Bay 14

Just cause I don't have any pictures of my boat North River 2  on the site.  And because there should be a place to put pictures of other examples of the design (like this), described in L. Francis Herreshoff's Sensible Cruising Designs.  The basic description is HERE.

Images: 1 and 2 - GWC; #3 - unknown - not my boat - another BB 14

Green Turtle

up to 5 feet, 690 lbs, vegan, according to the artist at Pescadotes