Is Marion M (Greenport, NY 1932) on her own power projecting that potentially gorgeous deck before her? Might she be?
I’ll be straightforward for once: Marion M has been moved away from South Street because the museum needs space. She is for sale. You/your organization can get information on purchasing her by contacting Captain Jonathan Boulware, Waterfront Director, South Street Seaport Museum. His tele and email are: 212.748.8772 jboulware@seany.org.
Some specifics on her history accompany bowsprite’s rendering here. Wooden tugboat W. O. Decker (1930) demonstrates that she has the stuff still in her. Decker stays at South Street Seaport Museum. Here and here are two of my many favorite bowsprite illustrations of Decker.
All these fotos come compliments of Jonathan Boulware, who took them in late June, as
her holding area on the KVK . . . where you can pick her up.
I wanted to add a few more fotos of Helen McAllister . . .
more life ahead of her. Here’s how she might look under her own power headed your way.
And with all this movement, what might Peking be thinking, saying . .. .?
Uh . . . she can’t talk, can she?
Again, Marion M can be yours. Contact Jonathan Boulware, Waterfront Director, South Street Seaport Museum 212.748.8772 jboulware@seany.org I’m told she’s listed in WoodenBoat‘s “Save a Classic” section, but I haven’t seen that yet.
I’d love to see her gussied up to 1932 standards. I’d even put greenbacks and sweat equity in the project. I’m reminded of what the “crazy farmers of Villiersdorp” managed to do . . . or the Onrust project in Rotterdam Junction.
Unrelated but NYTimes article about resurgence: Cross-harbor rail about to expand exponentially on the sixth boro!!
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July 20, 2012 at 5:36 pm
Joe Herbert
Alas, I have all the interest in the world and no money! Maid Marion’s wide expanse of deck would lend itself to an unbeliveable expanse of useage, has anybody thought to put her in Wooden Boat’s “Save Our Ship” column, or to contact Mystic Seaport? She would make a very usable and in tune with their theme workboat for them.
July 20, 2012 at 7:56 pm
tugster
she IS on woodenboat’s column. NOW she needs to get OFF the column and immediately into someone’s intensive care. surely you and i are not the only ones to see the potential. she’s history. look at the third foto here and see what happened to a sister of marion named OLLIE: https://tugster.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/something-different-3/
February 18, 2013 at 11:42 am
ted
Marion M has returned to the Chesapeake. She is under new passionate ownership and will be rejoining the historic Chesapeake Buy boat fleet. go to Oysterboats.com and follow the fleet’s rebirth and preservation.
February 18, 2013 at 11:53 am
tugster
woohoo, ted! i am thrilled to learn this. i hope to see marion m on her way to restoration soon.