River Day 1

River Day is eight days if you want to be technical.  I’d like to do all of them, but . . .  The fotos here are roughly chronological and exclude relatively new active duty government boats.  Most of these vessels have appeared on this blog before;  use the search window if you wish to locate these posts.  Minimal prose today.  First, the raison d’etre, Half Moon passing Robbins Light.

The “other” Dutch boat Onrust, not actually a replica of a boat made in the Low Countries.

Shearwater passing in front of MOT (or MOTBY) and Explorer of the Seas.

Fireboat John J Harvey.

Vintage sky traffic.

Mystic Whaler

Clipper City

Clearwater

R. Ian Fletcher

Governor Cleveland

Adirondack

Harvey again

Onrust again

OK, this is the quiz portion of the post.

Quiz continues. . . .

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A little over 25 miles (and six hours)  from the starting point, Half Moon passes the Tarrytown Light.

And judging from the “face” in the stern of Onrust, launched less than a month ago, she’s a happy yacht.

River Day will give Bowsprite so much fodder for continuing her sailing ship guide that she might not know where to begin!  Tomorrow’s itinerary is the 30 miles approximately between the Tappan Zee and Newburgh.

Many thanks to ExploreNY400 for the press passes and to Nicole for going the extra mile so that we got got the best fotos as well as to the staff of Circle Line who ran the very hospitable but unpictured vessel we were on.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp on River Day 1.  More to come.

So . . . can you think of any sixth boro schooners NOT depicted here?  I can think of a handful.  I wonder why they didn’t participate . . . .

Also, given the dearth of historical detail on the real Henry Hudson, Bowsprite and I have been reading his mate–R Juet’s log–and “interpreting/extrapolating Henry’s thoughts here.