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Schooner Richard Robbins Sr. has not appeared in this blog for almost 11 years, but once last summer while I was looking for something else, there she came into view, and sporting a fresh coat of paint.
Richard Robbins Sr., built in 1902 as a Delaware Bay oyster schooner, is one of five that remain. An NPS report on one of the others —Isaac H. Evans–can be read here.
More on RR Sr. here.
Anyone know how deep the centerboard swings?
I don’t know if she’s still out of the water. When she went (or goes) in, she’ll need to hang in the slings awhile to allow the banks to swell shut again.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, back last August.
Here are previous posts in this series.
Many thanks to Capt. Justin Zizes for these next six photos, all taken on November 6 during the transit of two Scarano schooners from NYC’s sixth boro up to Albany.
I would have joined as crew, but had obligations down river. Here they glide under the TZ,
and northward . . . .
The highlands look positively fjord-like, because of course that is what that stretch of river is.
Here the boat approaches the bridges in Poughkeepsie.
Not quite a month ago–October 19–I caught another Scarano schooner up
by the Bear Mountain Brdge.
Unrelated: Here’s an article on damage to insured recreational vessels from the hurricanes of 2017.
Way in the distance where the waterway narrows, that’s lock E-11 and accompanying moveable dam, Amsterdam NY. Click here for closer-ups of some of the Erie Canal locks and bank scenery.
I saw no names anywhere as this catamaran cut dynamic grooves into a calm river, where I was waiting–in vain–for a vessel in the opposite direction, hoping to get photos of it navigating through the morning mist. By this time, that mist had dissipated.
Here Bear motorsails westward past Little Gull light . . .
Anyone help with the name of this large sloop in the sixth boro about three weeks back?
It looked to be about 60–70′ . . .
America 2.0 plied harbor waters operations
out of Chelsea Piers.
Off Croton Point, this metallic-looking catamaran headed upriver.
Again, I noticed no name, but the flag could say Bermuda.
Even as the mainsail is lowered, Clearwater is unmistakeable.
And this brings up back up to the Oswego Canal, it’s brigantine St Lawrence II;
her rig conspicuously missing tells me it went on ahead on a truck. St. Lawrence II here was nearing Oswego.
And to close this out, here are three photos from Lake Erie, late summer.
All photos recently by Will Van Dorp, who by this time should be back on the St. Lawrence River.
Lest you think Combi-Dock III and Peking–I will get back to them– are the only thing happening in the watery parts of NYC, here’s just a sampling . . . in a series I started last summer.
SBI Macarena –a fairly new bulk carrier– came in past the Brooklynside ramps for the VZ Bridge,
passing Jo Provel on the way out . . .
looking quite large relative to the new NYC ferry.
Tanker New Confidence tested its systems–water and sonic–as Doris Moran arrived.
Where the Wind Blows sails south toward the Narrows, so fast that
I lost track of her, although I admit to being distracted by this squadron passing overhead Elizabeth Anne.
Pioneer–one of South Street Seaport Museum’s schooners–also sailed past and ever went outside
the Narrows, where I’ll pick this up another day.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, waiting for Combi-Dock III action.
The last leg for now goes from Newport to Warren RI, but given the favorable wind before the torrent, let’s watch those contemporaries who play in this N-Bay city with such a long colonial and post-colonial history.
I’m quite unschooled about these speedsters, like the one showing her red belly. A 12-meter, I suppose?
Northbound past Beavertail Light?
Madeleine heads out to play.
This racer is sponsored by the Danish wind energy company, quite appropriately, as I would hardly expect an ExxonMobil sponsored wind boat, although petroleum energy companies have started investing heavily in renewables . . . so someday soon there might be an Exxon sail racer. Here’s BP’s portfolio.
Aurora has been featured here almost two year ago.
Marilee (1926) is a classic, as is Pam (1921), once a whiskey runner.
Just as the wind boats use moving air currents to speed, this red tail benefitted from it to hover over a snake, which he eventually dropped, caught, and hauled off behind the tree line . . .
This is not a great photo, but Wallace Foss (1897!!) can be yours for a mere $165,000. Those winds eventually brought lots of rain, which we
saw as we did the last short step . . . Newport to Warren.
I’d love to have seen NOAA’s Gunter and Bigelow closer up . . .
Gracie M. Reinauer (2016) waited for more favorable offshore weather before heading to the sixth boro.
And finally, after over a 1000 miles on our itinerary, we return to home base, where Niagara Prince welcomes us back. So does anyone have photos to share of Niagara Prince in the Champlain Canal, the western Erie, Chicago Sanitary Canal, or any other inland waterway where scale make her look immense?
All photos by Will Van Dorp. For a similar focus on sailing vessels associated with a specific water mass, click here for photos from the Great ! Chesapeake Schooner race.
And if you’ve not caught the connection of this journey to Albert Gallatin (a US founding father), click here.
You may recall the schooner Issuma? Click here for many of the posts featuring her and her skipper Richard Hudson. She’s overwintering in the sixth boro after a truly remarkable voyage. When he left northward from the sixth boro in the fall of 2010, inviting me to sail along as a Halloween ride, he
eventually sailed out the Saint Lawrence, up along western Greenland, across northern Canada through the Northwest Passage, through Dolphin and Union Strait, southward in the Bering Strait, eventually to Easter Island, around Cape Horn into the Antarctic . . .
to Cape Town, and then northward along SW Africa until jumping off for St Helena, and then single-handing back to the sixth boro. That adds up to a circumnavigation of the North and South American continents and then some, and I think that’s a big deal. If you want to read about the entire trip, click here.
All photos here by Will Van Dorp.
Here are some posts about Lettie G. Howard.
Want to join the crew for a sail to Gloucester for the 2016 schooner race, be part of the race crew, or help sail the 1893 schooner back to NYC’s sixth boro?
You’d be crew in training, integrated into watch-standing along with her professional crew.
On the return, she stops in New London for the Connecticut Maritime Heritage Festival. And all the while, you’d be supporting the good work of South Street Seaport Museum, which has many other unparalleled events coming up in the next few weeks.
Here are the specifics on ticket prices, dates, and itineraries:
NYC to Gloucester | 8/29-9/2: $800.00*
Gloucester Schooner Race | 9/4: $160.00
Gloucester to New London | 9/5-9/9: $800.00
New London to NYC | 9/11-9/13: $480.00
*Sail the first leg and join the race at no additional cost!
To reserve your spot, email: lettieghoward@seany.org
The first and last photos here come from Hannah Basch-Gould; all the other have been taken by Will Van Dorp, who on these dates will be gallivanting to francophone Canada in search of Champlain’s dream.
Tugster has been a work in progress, evolving organically, without a foreseen plan. So I just noticed that although I’ve done many posts on autumn sail, I’ve not used the summer sail title. Until now.
What better place to start than with SSV Oliver Hazard Perry. GCaptain calls it a 21st century ship mindful of its historic roots. It heads to Boston this weekend to pick up its first crew! I caught the photo here back on June 27, but the prescient bowsprite caught it passing through the sixth boro here over seven years ago.
Also, in late June near 79th Street, I caught schooner Columbia, another 21st century sailing vessel with vintage lines a la Burgess.
Sloop Woodie Guthrie is currently undergoing a makeover in Kingston. You can donate to help here.
I believe this is OMF Ontario, on the hard over in Lysander, NY. In the background that’s an unidentified tender 1937 tender Dana II (Thx, JD) and Reliable, the sad (engineless) twin of Syracuse. See more of Reliable and Syracuse here.
Anyone know why OMF Ontario is still on the hard? Launched in 1994 at the site of the former Goble yard in Oswego, It purports to be the first Oswego-built schooner since 1879! I’d love to learn more.
Here’s OMF Ontario rigged and at the dock in August 2013.
Here’s Steelwinds, a wind turbine cluster built on part of a former Bethlehem Steel plant south of Buffalo and designed to take advantage of the fetch created by the prevailing SWerlies.
Here’s 1992 built Spirit of Buffalo. Does anyone have photos of her transiting through the sixth boro, the Hudson, and Erie Canal back in May 2009?
Here’s another 21st century sailing ship, also with vintage roots that go back way further than the 19th century, and a close up
of her figure head. Click here for a good starting point of this vessel’s construction.
And finally, here’s Inland Seas, anchored near the Straits of Mackinac. For more on the ship project and its late founder, click here.
All photos taken by Will Van Dorp, who is back in the sixth boro but unpacking from the Go West trip and planning a Go North trip .
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