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Gazela in Atlantic Basin

August 11, 2010 in arts, Brooklyn, Moran, New York harbor, personal, Philadelphia, photos, pirates, Portside New York, Red Hook, visiting tall ships | 7 comments
Tags: Brooklyn, Cabaret Red Light, Gazela, PortSide NewYork, Red Hook

Can you guess the connection between the three fotos that follow? Gazela –540 hp, the oldest wooden square-rigger sailing in the United States, built in Portugal in 1901 (?) to fish cod, and Philadelphia’s tall ship. Paul T. Moran, 7200 hp and built in 1975 and “pirate Calico Jack, who, unbeknownst to his crew, […]

Gazela in Atlantic Basin 2

August 21, 2010 in arts, Brooklyn, Mary Whalen, mermaids, New York harbor, personal, Philadelphia, photos, pirates, Red Hook, visiting tall ships | 2 comments
Tags: Brooklyn, Cabaret Red Light, Gazela, Mary Whalen, Portside New York, Red Hook

Ooooolala! What’s this? Make your way to Atlantic Basin ASAP; click here for tickets … only two shows Saturday (tonight!) and two Sunday left, before the floating burlesque sails over the horizon. Staging this burlesque is barquentine Gazela, whose first life fishing for cod continued until the year Armstrong stepped onto the moon. Yessir, this […]

Gazela Returns to Philly

August 29, 2010 in Delaware River, East Coast, EPA vessels, gallivant, New Jersey, New York harbor, Penn Maritime, Philadelphia, photos, Reinauer, ships, Vane Brothers, visiting tall ships, wooden boats | 3 comments
Tags: Delaware Bay, EPA-Bold, Gazela, Suomigracht, tugster, Vane Brothers Brandywine

To see an excellent Flickr foto of Gazela by Gregg M, click here. And for an account plus video of Gazela‘s trip to New Bedford earlier this summer, click here. For my earlier pics of Gazela in Atlantic Basin Red Hook, click here. As Gazela sailed back to Philly between daybreak last Wednesday and late […]