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Springtime . . . and motion gives a renewed sense of life to the watery boro. Emerald Sea‘s been around all winter, but she’s not moved loads like this. Diner? Prefab beach buildings for post-Sandy reconstruction? Many thanks to Ashley Hutto for this shot taken along Roxbury, Queens.
Eclipse, the huge yacht in the distance has taller masts than Clipper City, the tallest sailing vessel operating in the the harbor. Eclipse left the harbor Tuesday, headed for Gibraltar.
Schooner Virginia left Wednesday, headed for Virginia . . . by way of Portland, Maine.
Anyone know the manufacturer of the speedboat in the foreground? In the background is Zephyr, launched 10 years ago from the Austal Shipyard in Mobile, AL . . . and Wavertree, launched 128 years ago in Southampton, UK.
I could almost imagine this boat has a bowsprit.
Smaller workboats seem more commonplace this time of year like Henry Hudson,
this Oyster Bay government boat,
an OCC vessel,
and of course the ubiquitous all-weather sludge tanker North River, frequently mentioned on this blog.
Thanks to Ashley for the first foto, and I’d love to know what that structure on the Weeks barge is. All other fotos by Will Van Dorp, who feels the urge to go somewhere too.
When the sixth boro looks like this, I recall
the warmth of late summer and
even late spring, truly splendid times to sail It’s Clipper City above and . . following Dewaruci, Clipper City below. But to ensure the vessels are ready, crews dedicate winter
to visiting places like this
for haul-out.
The vessel gets inspected
everywhere, even under the keel.
Wear and tear gets repaired and
and reinspected.
Exactly 90 days from today (April 26, 2013), the 158′ vessel begins season 2013. Clipper City is one of two vessels operated by Manhattan by Sail, the other being Shearwater. Click here for more info on Clipper City, a 1984 replica of a Manitowoc lumber schooner that operated on Lake Michigan between 1854 and 1890 and capable of sailing 115 miles in less than 8 hours.
Manhattan by Sail is owned by Tom Berton, who first sailed on Petrel, a now-gone pioneer of sixth boro public sail operated by Nick Van Nes.
All fotos here by Will Van Dorp.
For profiles of Clipper City, Shearwater, and many other vessels from June 2009, click here. For fotos of Clipper City bound for the yard, click here.
Entering the KVK from the east . . . it’s the tallest tall ship sailing the sixth boro.
At about the same moment, entering the KVK from its west gate, aka the Bayonne Bridge, it’s Rebel, followed by Nicole Leigh Reinauer.
Clipper City, launched in Florida in 1984, is a replica of a wooden schooner that operated on the Great Lakes during the second half of the 19th century.
The schooner is only 20′ longer than Rebel.
Clipper City is headed for a haul-out.
Later I catch the stern of Rebel westbound back to the yard. I believe the near-twin of Rebel in the distance is Yankee.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Pioneer headed southwest, then
west.
and Clipper City taking her stern.
Laura K Moran takes the stern of an Offshore Sailing School boat.
A small sloop appears to go head-t0-head with Meriom Topaz and does the same with
Americas Spirit, as the tanker is lightered and provisioned.
And finally . . is the green cata-schooner passing off the stern of Comet really Heron, which I last saw in Puerto Rico here (last foto)?
Here she tacks to the east just north of the Verrazano. And Saturday night I spotted her again passing southbound through Hell Gate.
I hope to have more exciting autumn sail soon.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Here was 5.
Yesterday before noon I saw rain, sun, and then rain again. Afternoon was the same. The foto below of Norwegian Star I took at 16:06.
16:21
16:21 . . . a rainbow spanned from Red Hook Brooklyn to Newtown Creek Queens, although I couldn’t see the Queens’ leg.
16:35, and by this time I was again getting rained on.
16:40
16:44 and here comes the main act . . .
a rainbow spanning from Battery Park to
midtown, although I couldn’t fit it all on a single shot from the middle of the River.
then 17:26. Is that a sundog over Jersey City? Snow soon?
An hour later I was watching the moonrise but got no fotos. Check these out in the vicinity of the Mackinac Bridge here. And while AIS to try to identify the Wagenborg vessel in Ken’s post, I noticed someone off Sarnia who’d been in Bayonne only two weeks ago! Kongo Star! Check her itinerary here.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
A yawl? Know the name?
I can’t help with the name, but it looks fun and wet. It raced today as part of the New York Classic.
The competition seemed fierce.
Slower, but more stately, it’s Pride of Baltimore 2, who’s gone east as far as Lunenburg and west as far as Duluth this summer.
Scarano’s Adirondack here
trails America 2.0.
K-Sea’s Maryland has enough house to qualify as sail. Here Maryland meets Shearwater.
Clipper City is the larger sailing vessel here.
And Liberty Clipper . . . I don’t know her story. She breezed in yesterday but was not in the race today . . . Saturday.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
. . . er “air” and “water.” But with the Earth & Fire post last week, this had to appear, right?
Thanks to the tentatively definitive compendium on “schooner identification in the sixth boro,” I can without a doubt call the leftmost vessel Imagine and the rightmost Adirondack. And for outatowners, that’s Hoboken in the background.
Just a glimpse of the spoon-bowed, yellow-sailed schooner raises my spirits from dragging along May’s rocks to June’s breeziness.
Notice how the profile of Escape Plan gets echoed here in the upper reaches of North Sea.
With the June breezes and right attention, even if just for a few moments, all my cares take wing and fly away . . . propelling my spirit like a little sloop dallying about the start of the North River.
Seeing a yellow hulled sailboat, like Mamzel, powering upriver, one of many migrating mostly northward at season’s start conjures up one thought . . . sailing . . . you’re doing it wrong.
Clipper City . . . sailing, almost doing it right, but
these ones got it: Pride of Baltimore, Imagine, and Adirondack . . . back in 2008, air moving them through the water.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Here’s an “erin wadder” post from last fall; more soon.
And don’t forget the caption contest here . . . I’ve got some good entries but want some more. Send’em in, please.
A little more watercolor from yesterday . . . the rainbow injects magic into what otherwise might just be distant Brooklyn waterfront, Clipper City, and a Staten Island ferry.
Here’s what creates the conditions for a rainbow.
Color on water, this time reflecting a certain survey boat with unique paint loss patterns.
You will notice an apparent repetitiveness in the next set of fotos of Frying Pan over at Pier 66 Maritime–my favorite place on the Manhattan waterfront, except not
really. The evanescent colored shapes so took me that I just keep shooting as
Harvey‘s propwash made ripples and
swirls and pulsations and
teases, glimpses of LV-115 Frying Pan‘s chartreuse hairy nether parts.
All was fine until I imagined what other situations exist that colors the
waters this living red or
rusty, risky brown .
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated to this post, but take 2.5 minutes and enjoy this audio slideshow for an article in the 4/19 New Yorker magazine, a story of a family towing life written by Burkhard Bilger.
For an earlier post on the stone trade almost three years ago, click here. All today’s fotos come from Jed. Trident (ex-Delta Trident, Delta Eagle, and Libra built in 1982) is a new boat in the boro, I believe. I’m guessing she’s currently a sibling of Eastern Dawn (ex-Delta Mule).
Crushed rock . . . what building project could proceed with it? A major quarry is located upriver in Clinton Point; see the last foto here.
Buchanan 12 seems to be dedicated to the
stone trade.
Imagine if all this crushed rock moved exclusively by truck. Horrors!
All fotos … thanks to Jed.
Unrelated but tall ship opportunity: PortSide NewYork FreeSail Clipper City 4-12-2010
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