Surf City Surf Dog competition - in pictures | Life and style | guardian.co.uk

You will note that there are no Labrador Retrievers in this competition? Too smart.

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No Traffic, No Noise, on Rat Island- the Bronx - NYTimes.com

Rat Island is near Barron's boatyard, City Island

Rat Island - a hazard between City Island and Hart Island - the site of New York City's Potter's Field -  is for sale.

No Traffic, No Noise, on an Island Off the Bronx - NYTimes.com: "It has no electricity or sewer lines. Much of it is under water at high tide. It has no shelter, nor a ready spot to build one. It does not even come with a dock."

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Heritage Cup 2011

Heritage Cup 2011

The 6th Annual Heritage Cup Race - part of the Wooden Boat Regatta Series - is October 1 at Hempstead Harbor Club, Sea Cliff, New York.

Star Class Centennial Regatta - Larchmont

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Larchmont Yacht Club hosted the Centennial Regatta of the International Star Class Yacht Racing Association.  Over 100 boats competed - 98 moderns, 9 wood, and 13 classics in four days of racing.  The legendary keel boat - recently bounced from the Olympics in favor of X-games type hot racers - is the favorite of world champion sailors like Torben Grael and Paul Cayard.

I got lucky today on my way back from the Indian Harbor Classics race in Greenwich.  I found myself motoring west on North River as the Star fleet beat to windward on the Long Island Sound.  Here is the link to the shots I took.  And HERE is the link to shots by a pro. Video below.

Issuma: through the northwest passage!

Issuma has passed through the Arctic Sea, into the Chukchi Sea, and the Bering Strait.  They are now anchored on the Bay of Port Clarence (65° 15′ 58″ N, 166° 51′ 10″ W) an area on the Seward Peninsula, in the Nome Region.  They saw little ice.  No surprise since sea ice in the arctic has hit an historic low.  Dramatically different from circa 1845 - the time of the doomed Franklin expedition of the Royal Navy.
Richard reports today (9/11) that they were out of touch for a while - sat phone charging problems.  When time and conditions permit he'll put up the posts he could not transmit. Blogger showed me no new posts, but closer followers were getting position reports, so scroll down on Issuma's blog for more on the arctic passages.
Next stop may be Brevig Mission (pop. 276), then on down the Bering Sea to the Aleutian Islands, and...

Northwest Passage 2012 dot com: Arctic ice cover hits historic low - The Last Icy Arctic Northwest Passage in 2012 on M/V GREY GOOSE

Take that, Rick Perry!. - GWC
Northwest Passage 2012 dot com: Arctic ice cover hits historic low - The Last Icy Arctic Northwest Passage in 2012 on M/V GREY GOOSE: "The area covered by Arctic sea ice reached its lowest point this week since the start of satellite observations in 1972, German researchers announced on Saturday.
"On September 8, the extent of the Arctic sea ice was 4.240 million square kilometres (1.637 million square miles). This is a new historic minimum," said Georg Heygster, head of the Physical Analysis of Remote Sensing Images unit at the University of Bremen's Institute of Environmental Physics."

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Northwest Indians - return to canoes

The Times has a great slide show HERE about Swinomish Indian families returning to their traditional canoes for weeks of summer travel.

Mast Mate

Dave Seroy replaced the headsail sheave on the masthead of his Bayfield 24 named Leandra.  It's a long way up and down.  He climbed the rig using Mast Mate.  The shots overlook City island YC's mooring field on Eastchester Bay. See the video below.

I bought it - 22' Eastern

I have given up on the Lyman.  Just can't get that engine running right - not trustworthy enough for transporting grandkids - or myself.  So I bought a boat.  Not another mass of mahogany, no ooh and aah at the dock.  Just a solid, older fiberglass hull by Eastern - the New Hampshire skiff builder. Homeport: Hatchet Cove, Friendship, Maine.
21' 10", 2,200 lbs, 90 hp 2 stroke Merc, 1983 hull, center console

22'  Eastern at Jeff's Marine, Thomaston, ME

Cruise to Sing Sing