If Xena captured first place in my heart this weekend, then second place went to Snekke 2. Hear it
purr through a lake (in New Hampshire?) here.
Named after a traditional Norwegian design for the smallest Viking longships, this beaut comes from the boatshop of Andrew Wallace, featured on this great vintage boat site.
Talking traditional, this is a new birchbark canoe. Seeing it reminded me it was high time to reread
John McPhee’s Survival of the Bark Canoe, not a how-to book, but a compelling profile of a traditional bark boat builder about 35 years ago.
I saw this boat in Noank, a few miles from the Show. Too small to read here, the name is Joshua B. Edwards, a legendary whale man of the East End of Long Island. That name suggests the origin of the design. Learn more at Sag Harbor.
This has to qualify as the most unusual cockpit: notice the compass base and cask contents label.
Here’s the name. What’s not clear is whether Winfield Lash is the 1927 Atkin boat or a replica. Any help?
I offer this foto, but it does not do justice to Amistad, a 10-year-old replica of La Amistad. I recall the smell of new wood a cold winter day I watched her being built in Mystic.
Charles W. Morgan became this entity a century and three-fourths ago!!
The longevity of Morgan or . . . the charm of the barely visible woman wearing the hat and standing just to starboard of the bow AND whose last name is a four-letter word beginning with W and ending with D . . . so which better answers the “Why Wood” question? Of course, you know the answer. Yes, there was a close-up many posts ago.
Although this catboat was on the pier at Mystic, the color says Caribbean all over it to me. Sorry . . . don’t know the name.
Final one . . . also taken in Noank, a ketch with leeboards. It had anchored in Mystic and was headed for sea here. Anyone know the name? I’d like to learn more about sailing with leeboards.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
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June 29, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Jed
Noank is a GREAT town.
The Seaport in Springtime is incomparable.
Don’t see that kinda stuff down my way…
JED sends
June 30, 2009 at 8:25 am
Mage Bailey
I once lived with a man who had a sailing canoe with a leeboard.
June 30, 2009 at 9:31 am
Mage Bailey
MM webmaster Martin Cox reports that: “Peaceboat’s OCEANIC has been delayed further, following a routine US Coast Guard safety inspection. Local NY press reports state that the 1965-built ship is expected to be moved to New Jersey for dry docking and further hull repairs. Divers have already temporarily sealed a small hole with epoxy and now her passengers are being taken to New York hotels.” Here’s a chance for more pictures of this classic beauty.
June 30, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Jed
OCEANIC is currently dry in the GMD graving dock.
July 1, 2009 at 10:58 am
Michael
I did not believe that I would float. One day after daycamp when I was about nine my father asked if I had learned how to swim yet. I lied and said I had. “Excellent,” he proclaimed, “tomorrow we’ll go to the pool at Jones Beach and you can show me.”
Didn’t sleep that night.
We arrive at the pool the next day. We get in. In horror, I realize I’d rather drown than face my father and tell him I’d lied, so I jumped forward and did what the instructors said to do for the “dead man’s float”.
As I expected, I sank, soon to die.
Then I felt myself start to rise back up to the surface! So I started moving my arms and legs, and swam about ten feet before stopping to gasp for air.
My father was delighted with my swimming, and proceeded to give me tips.
Ten years later, after being certified as a life guard, I told my dad the story of what really happened at the Jones Beach pool. He got a big laugh out of it.
July 2, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Canoez
Winfield Lash is a reproduction. It was built by a gentleman by the name of Clark who is a former submariner over the course of many years – 14 IIRC. The boat was featured in a WoodenBoat article (don’t ask me the issue number, I don’t recall.)
July 6, 2009 at 5:20 am
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