Hatchet Cove - Muscongus Bay

 

April and May stay in Friendship

This house is next to Brian's Wharf

where our boat GeorgiaBel

is moored.  It's undergoing restoration.

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Alex Abramovich | Rather be Humpty · LRB 28 April 2021

Alex Abramovich | Rather be Humpty · LRB 28 April 2021

Shock G was the Donald Fagen of hip hop: a piano player, most comfortable behind his instrument, thrust into the role of a front man. His birth name was Gregory Edward Jacobs, and most of his audience knew and remembered him as Humpty Hump – a sign of how uneasy he was in his skin, with even his onstage persona hidden behind other personas. But every one of them exuded warmth and good humour. In Oakland, where Shock G made his name, he’ll be remembered not just for his genius but for being a gentle and generous force on the scene.

Oakland is not a big city; one of its nicknames is ‘the Town’. But for a long while, starting in the late 1980s, it had one of the strongest rap scenes in the country. Too Short, E-40, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Saafir, Souls of Mischief, the Coup and Tupac Shakur were all Oakland rappers. Until Shakur came along, MC Hammer was far and away the most popular. (Elsewhere, Hammer may have been seen as a joke; in Oakland he’s a hero.) Shock G, who mentored Saafir and Shakur, among others, liked to play the role of a clown. But really he was the scene’s jack-of-all-trades.

Raised up and down the East Coast, like Shakur, he’d been there when hip hop emerged from New York’s outer boroughs. In Tampa, where his father lived, he dropped out of high school, got in and out of trouble with the law, and formed a large crew of MCs and DJs called the Master Blasters. They were popular enough to land Jacobs his own radio show on Tampa’s big R&B station.

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Nat Herreshoff’s Legacy Lives On in Maine - WindCheck Magazine

Before we were all distracted by our phones

people joined clubs and

raced small boats like these

Herreshoff 12 1/2s which the legendary designer Nat Herreshoff called

Buzzards Bay Boys Boats

Since then a few fleets have flourished.  One is at North Haven Island, 12 miles east of Rockland, Maine a 45 minute ferry ride from the mainland.  There a fleet of the sturdy 15'9" keel boats still thrives - some old, most new versions of the boats they call Foxeyes - for the Fox Island Thoroughfare leading east toward Stonington.  Windcheck tells the story of the century old summer racing fleet.  I guess I have to note that my boat North River 2 is a Herreshoff BB 14 designed by Nat's son L. Francis.

WindCheck Magazine Nat Herreshoff’s Legacy Lives On - WindCheck Magazine

Legendary architect Henry Cobb 

The designer of the Hancock Tower 

and the Charleston African American Museum 

out for a sail in his Foxeye Elsie Q.

[ Photo by his son-in-law Mark Speed]

North River 2 - my boat - ghosting on LI Sound

Peter Warner, 90, Seafarer Who Discovered Shipwrecked Boys, Dies - The New York Times

Peter Warner with his crew, six of whom he

had rescued, shipwrecked on a non longer inhabited Tongan Island

I fancy myself a man of the sea, though the last time I was really at sea was fifty four years ago - for five days on a fishing boat like the one below in the Arabian Sea as a Peace Corps Volunteer, assigned to St. Peter's Fishermen's Cooperative Society in Bassein, a bit north of Bombay, Maharashtra State.  

So when encountering the real thing, it's time for humility and respect.  The Australian Peter Warner was the real thing - and he had the poetic grace to be swept from his boat by a rogue wave at 90. - GWC

Typical fishing boats,

Maharashtra, India

Peter Warner, 90, Seafarer Who Discovered Shipwrecked Boys, Dies - The New York Times

By Clay RisenPeter Warner, an Australian seafarer whose already eventful life was made even more so in 1966 when he and his crew discovered six shipwrecked boys who had been living on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific for 15 months, died on April 13 in Ballina, New South Wales. He was 90.

His death was confirmed by his daughter Janet Warner, who said he had been swept overboard by a rogue wave while sailing near the mouth of the Richmond River, an area he had known for decades. A companion on the boat, who was also knocked into the water, pulled Mr. Warner to shore, but attempts to revive him were unsuccessful.

The story of the 1966 rescue, which made Mr. Warner a celebrity in Australia, began during a return sail from Nuku’alofa, the capital of Tonga, where he and his crew had unsuccessfully requested the right to fish in the country’s waters. Casually casting his binoculars at a nearby island, ‘Ata, which was thought to be uninhabited, he noticed a burned patch of ground.

“I thought, that’s strange that a fire should start in the tropics on an uninhabited island,” he said in a 2020 video interview. “So we decided to investigate further.”

As they approached, they saw a naked teenage boy rushing into the water toward them; five more quickly followed. Recalling that some island nations imprisoned convicts on islands like ‘Ata, he told his crew to load their rifles.

But when the boy, Tevita Fatai Latu, who also went by the name Stephen, reached the boat, he told Mr. Warner that he and his friends had been stranded for more than a year, living off the land and trying to signal for help from passing ships.

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Homeless Shelter Plan For Inwood African Burial Ground Advances | Washington Heights, NY Patch

Homeless Shelter Plan For Inwood African Burial Ground Advances | Washington Heights, NY Patch

Steph Curry - there ought'a be a law against this

Steph Curry over the last 5 games:

53 PTS - 58 FG% - 55 3P%
42 PTS - 70 FG% - 68 3P%
33 PTS - 5 AST - 48 FG%
47 PTS - 55 FG% - 57 3P%
49 PTS - 50 FG% - 58 3P%

MVP talks need to intensify. 👀🔥 pic.twitter.com/iMQN97eErB

— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) April 20, 2021

Great, late career songs - Dave Weigel playlist

Hello, you can read it here: Making a playlist of songs by people whose voices are shot, in a way… https://t.co/zKndVdrzri See you soon. 🤖

— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) April 18, 2021

Mack the Knife - Mortat - Marianne Faithfull

 The Kurt Weill classic from Brecht's Three penny opera

Atlantic Salmon - Opening Day on the Miramichi 2021 | Brad Burns Fishing

We are accustomed to the fact that if you want wild caught salmon it has got to be Pacific salmon.  Atlantic salmon comes from fish farms, ponds, and tanks - mostly in Norway, but Maine too.

Of course salmon used to be a major catch in the north Atlantic ocean.  The Merrimack River runs from the juncture of  the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers in Franklin, New Hampshire to the Gulf of Maine at Newburyport, Massachusetts.  It was first known as the Salmon River, as Jeffrey Bolster reports in his Bancroft Prize-winning history of the Gulf of Maine and north Atlantic fishery The Mortal Sea .

Since the Faeroe islanders  and others were bought out, pledging to never again fish for the pink meat of the salmon, there has been a conservation success.  Brad Burns of Friendship and Yarmouth Maine, a guide, often takes his clients fishing on the Miramichi River in New Brunswick.  There you can land a big one without having to fly across the continent.

- GWC

Opening Day on the Miramichi 2021 | Brad Burns Fishing