This has to be the strangest dinner boat in the harbor. It’d be as odd to see a Citroen DS in the Daytona 500.
Now I always knew these were called bateau mouche in French, but I assumed that since “mouche” means “fly,” as in the pesky type you shoo away, I thought there was a joke I was missing. So imagine my surprise when I learned that I Mouche was the name of the shipyard where this type of vessel is built! So if your February 14th Valentine’s event didn’t–er–rise above the mundane, check this out. If I have to wear a jacket though, leave me at the dock. Actually, take me along as crew as long as I can get left-overs and watch the other delights of the East River…
… like this one below. I can hallucinate, but my camera doesn’t lie. Does anyone know what this vessel is? It motored through very quickly last spring. Although there were a few passengers, no one seemed to be at the helm, piloted by ghosts?
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February 22, 2007 at 10:42 pm
bonnie
I keep stopping by hoping somebody’s identified the mystery sailing vessel – would we call that a caravel? The name “Pinta” popped to mind, and I looked up some pictures of Pinta replicas – close, but not right on, they don’t quite match. Curious about the other mystery boat too (that other one does have such a spooky look about her).
And I can’t find my copy of the ASTA “Sail Tall Ships” book ANYWHERE which is making me sad.
February 22, 2007 at 11:09 pm
bonnie
found it. Not too helpful though.