After Rumble on the Harlem River, a New Crew Takes Over the Sharp Boathouse - NYTimes.com

After Rumble on the Harlem River, a New Crew Takes Over the Sharp Boathouse - NYTimes.com:
Row New York has taken over the beautiful Sharp boathouse on the Harlem Creek - a great rowing venue.



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Voyager 1 - first to leave the solar system

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by Carl Franzen, Talking Points Memo  Voyager first to leave solar system 




NASA’s unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, has become the first vessel in history to reach the edge of the solar system, NASA announced in mid-June.

It’s hard to overstate the milestone: At some point in the near future — it could be days or months, possibly, but not likely even a few years — Voyager is expected to break away from the bubble of particles emitted by the Sun encasing our solar system and enter the totally new, completely unexplored region of interstellar space, the black void separating us from the other star systems in our Milky Way Galaxy.

Longest day of the year

at New York		Length of day		Solar noon
Date	Sunrise	Sunset	This day	Difference	Time	Altitude	Distance
							(106 km)
Jun 21, 2012	5:25 AM	8:31 PM	15h 05m 39s	< 1s	12:58 PM	72.7°	152.034

Hazards of spear fishing: harpoon through the skull

The doctors say no vital structures were damaged.

North River 2 on the mooring and at the dock - City Island Y.C.

a Buzzards Bay 14 - L. Francis Herreshoff - designer

What I Miss Most About My Father - George Vecsey

What I Miss Most About My Father - George Vecsey:


Recollections of his father by the great Times writer - the sports columnist and Brooklynite George Vecsey.

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Novice crew for Father's Day

Nik Wallenda at Niagara = Philippe Petit at the Twin Towers

Man on Wire - the Philippe Petit story told in an Oscar winning movie in 2008 (trailer below)

Philippe Petit - 1974 - at the World Trade Center
no TV, no tether, no permit, no crowds, no sponsors

Nik Wallenda - 2012 - media circus, tethered, permitted, sponsored

Hell is the Bay of Biscay

565 nm - 24 hour distance record - Volvo Ocean Race

Camper set a 24 hour distance record yesterday during leg 8 of the Volvo Ocean Race - a sprint from Lisbon to L'Orient - 565.8 nautical miles.