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A decade ago I rode Condor and saw close up the start of the 23rd running of the great! Chesapeake Schooner race. Covid intervened for a few years and actually changed the format; now there’s a Bay Race, which begins today, and a virtual race, fund raiser.
In 2012, the starting boat also raised its tugantine sails after all the schooners had passed /checked in at the starting line.
There were too boats many to reprise here, but A. J. Meerwald sailed, as
did Lady Maryland. She and Meerwald appeared on this blog way back in 2007 on a foggy summer day.
The Colvin design is evident with Cuchulain. Here’s more on Thomas E. Colvin.
Virginia and Pride of Baltimore II run side by side before the race.
Liberty Clipper and a yawl I’ve never managed to identify pass. I never realized until now that Liberty Clipper was Blount built.
Sultana is a replica of a pre-Revolutionary War topsail schooner.
Summerwind is no replica; she’s 1929 Thomaston ME built for a banker just before the October 1929 Crash.
Before raising their own sails, the crew of the tugantine shares a libation with the old man of the sea bay.
Then it was tugantine tanbark sails raised and off they scudded to the south end of the Bay.
All photos, WVD, who would love to reprise this race in 2023 . . .
It’s October 1, and travel on we do, in this case, back in time exactly a decade. Waterford was still recovering from Hurricane Irene, and farther upriver, that recovery would go on for at least half a decade.
Reinauer Twins was recently completed, and WTC1 had a long ways to go.
This 1929 trawler was patrolling the waters over by the Statue. This has to be one of the best government boat-to-yacht conversions I’ve seen. Fred tug44 profiled it here.
Beware the arm monster that lurks below. Who knows . . . it could have been a very hungry mermaid or her sister Sedna approaching the unsuspecting kayaker . . .
This beautiful bar, which did need some cleaning up, disappeared
when Binghamton met its crusher fate. The process also was hastened by Irene.
Pride of Baltimore II passed the Statue, as did
this unnamed yawl keeping some water
on its starboard rail. I never did figure out what yawl this was.
There’ll be a part B. Guess which vessel had this helm.
All photos, a decade ago, by WVD.
Unrelated, have you seen this footage taken by a sailing drone inside Hurricane Sam?
and they skip the sixth boro…. They were in New London some years back and here too . . ., but 2017 has gone from Charleston to Bermuda, and from there to Boston, Quebec City and Halifax . . . All these photos come compliments of Sean McQuilken…
And in order, it’s Libertad, who once long ago in 1969 called at South Street Seaport, here (and scroll) to deliver some original spars for Wavertree ,
Oosterschelde, the 99-year-old,
Alexander von Humboldt II, (the oldster of this set, albeit one with a major reinvention),
El Galeon, whom I first saw in San Juan,
Lynx,
When and If, who traveled the Erie Canal a few years back to get worked on on Seneca Lake, all great ships . . . Maybe one of these years, Wavertree and Peking will join in the fun . . . just maybe… And Peking has its share of adventure awaiting it this summer, with loading anticipated now early in the second week of July.
But I won’t be in Boston, because this weekend is also the mermaid’s conclave . . . and I head to the heartland and off the grid right after that . . .
Again, many thanks to Sean for these photos.
As I post this, Hurricane Isaac approaches New Orleans, and the work of every mariner on the river is to ride out the storm. Even if it appears that almost nothing is moving on the river, movement is there and intense. Click here (now) for live views on the street and on the river in the Crescent City. To see what Isaac looked like over in Florida from Jed’s perspective, click here.
In the sixth boro, a race is a few days away, but vessels like Susan Miller--pushing the barge with the “rolled on and about to be rolled off” trailer–are at work.
Ditto an unidentified DonJon tug, Pati E. Moran, inbound CMM CMA CGM Eiffel, and schooner Pride of Baltimore II go about their business.
Having “rolled-off” said trailer truck, Susan distances herself from Mary Whalen (just the bow at the starboard stern of the cruise ship) and Queen Mary 2.
Viking moves a barge through the KVK,
as does Arabian Sea and
Weeks’ Elizabeth,
Dorothy J,
St. Andrews,
Gramma Lee T Moran, and
the list could go on. Here, Doris Moran and Dace Reinauer . . . that’s tug work too. This last foto below comes compliments of Marian & William Hyman. Thanks.
All other fotos taken by will Van Dorp, who will be at the race Sunday. Thanks for reading.
Here’s some of my May 2010 coverage of Fleet Week’s arrival. So Fleet Week and OpSail 2012 have converged, commingling state-of-the-art with traditional vessels. Now add into the mix F/A-18s and Hudson river water pumped through the system of 1931 John J. Harvey. Doubleclick enlarges fotos.
Leading the fleet is Eagle.
And leading the tall ships is J. S. de Elcano (1927).
The day was blessed with atmospheric light
…and acrobatic and disciplined sailors.
Not as common a name to our ears as Magellan, Elcano was Magellan’s second-in-command and the one who completed “Magellan’s circumnavigation” more than a year after Magellan was killed in 1521.
Vessels included destroyer USS Roosevelt (commissioned 2000),
Gazela (1901), (Get tickets to this weekend’s Gazela theater here.)
USS San Jacinto (commissioned 1988),
and Dewaruci (launched 1953, keel laid 1932).
I wondered what these crew would do if the ominous sky sent thunder and lightning.
Etoile, I believe, was there as were
La Belle Poule (1932),
and Cisne Branco (2000) and HCMS Iroquois (1970, 1992).
Crew rode high in the rigging of Cisne Branco.
Cuauhtemoc (commissioned 1982) passed in review with
more crew in the rigging.
Emily Miller made the parade and in the distance, it’s USS Gonzalez (commissioned 1996).
Click here for info on the namesake for DDG-66.
Appledore 5 crosses JS Shirane (commissioned 1980).
The sailing vessel heeled over is Summerwind (1929) and approaching is James Turecamo (1969), prepared to handle white hulls.
Pride of Baltimore II is especially significant, given that the rationale for an OpSail event this year is the bicentennial of the war of 1812. This fact also makes significant the participation by a Canadian and a British vessel in Fleet Week.
And huge flag . . . says it’s Gloria (commissioned 1968), passing
RFA Argus, container ship turned floating hospital.
Colombian crew –men and women–in the rigging
and on the jibbom put on a colorful show.
Guayas (commissioned 1976)
had skyscraper crew at the very top of the mast.
And finally . . a return for USS Wasp. Notice the tug midships port side. Know it?
I was surprised to learned it was neither Charles D. nor Responder but Roderick (1967) ! Generally, Roderick is not a sixth boro tug.
And here’s another unusual sight, commingling the power of a McAllister and a Moran assisting Wasp into the berth.
Parade over, Catherine heads back to the dock, as does Pioneer (commissioned 1885!!)
And a final shot for today, TWO French handiworks, Belle Poule and the Statue of Liberty.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Rake refers to mast slant from perpendicular relative to forward and aft. Generally, a mast is raked aft of plumb, although in many seas masts are raked forward. Raking the masts of a sailing vessel, one step of tuning a rig, ideally serves to balance the center of effort. The rake here on Liberty Clipper is accentuated by the “perpendicularity” of the buildings over in Jersey City. Foto taken in October. Serious sailors and naval architects can talk at length about rake.
Pride of Baltimore II also has seriously
raked masts. So does Spirit of Bermuda, as seen here back in September. As do Amistad and Amazon.
Ditto schooner America.
On power ships, stacks are often raked, although this seems to be about style. To rake or not is a “first chicken or first egg” questions of ship design. Cangarda has a single raked funnel. Earlier steam vessels appeared to have perpendicular stacks.
Buoys, on the other hand, should not be “raked” this much and on only one side of the channel. Something amiss here is.
Unrelated: Some three years back bowsprite took these fotos and gave momentum to my whatzit series. Here‘s how that “short ship” looks today, just before a radical transformation into something “tall.”
Also unrelated but getting some attention these days, tugster ran this post of Giulio Verne six plus weeks ago. NYTimes ran this story yesterday, and adds delightful onboard info.
I’m still in Georgia, craving salt water, completing unfinished blog posts when the spirit moves me.
A sailing race a thing of beauty is. It’s graceful, regal, with no extraneous noise. It’s slow . . not to a swimmer but to the speeds “dinosaur fuel” propels us. From left to right here, I think it’s America 2.0, Intrepid, Bernice, Black Watch, and Pride of Baltimore II.
Black Watch (?) takes Pride of Baltimore II’s stern as they both try to read the barely visible.
The beauty of a race like this is that it’s enjoyable even from some miles away, as
each rig differs a bit from the next and progress is about unhurried urgency . . . like “slow food.”
The hulls suggest agelessness, although they benefit from a wealth of loving, skilled maintenance.
The Pride of Baltimore II always leaves me wondering, given that NYC is the place of the 99% AND the 1%, why the sixth boro and the supporting five can’t boast of a Pride of New York floating hither and yon around the globe. What’s wrong here?
Gantry cranes are the early 21st century’s version of Walt Whitman’s “numberless masts.”
Pride … , of course, does have an engine . . . two Cats, in fact, and it can
make a lot of noise if she chooses with her artillery.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
If you noticed a lot of sail on the sixth boro the past few days amidst all variety of weather, then you witnessed at least part of New York Classic Week. Below, Pride of Baltimore2 and When and If pass below the cliffs of lower Manhattan. Foto compliments of bowsprite; all others by Will Van Dorp.
Here When and If, Adirondack and Pride of Baltimore2 head for the Statue in the “farewell race” today. Notice crewman setting a topsail on Pride.
Here, a view from the water, shows some of Lower Manhattan’s cliffs aka “the new palisades.”
The foto below taken yesterday just seconds after the red racing flag appeared shows America II, Black Watch (ex-Tabor Boy and ex-Edlu II), Imagine, and Adirondack. For info on each of the vessels, click here, then navigate to NY Classic Week and then 2008 participating yachts. Winner was Black Watch, with Adirondack, 3rd.
Also, at the start yesterday, When and If and Pride, finishing 6 and 5 respectively. By the way, When and If was built for General Patton.
Naturally, a tug appears in these fotos . . . here a Buchanan moves a sand scow downriver as the sailing yachts prepare for the red flag signalling the race start.
Peculiar, thought bowsprite, for what cause does this sailing flotilla make southward? To bring out -lemme see–Adirondack, What and If, Pride of Baltimore 2, and an unknown sloop, might there be some contest? Might the East River squadron soon flank? Might some exotic airship there negotiate an approach? Spritely, then, to the other side of her balloon’s gondola did she glance, and
–egads–what ho? What fabulous collection of vessels does northward these waters ply?
What intrepid and classic do these smaller ones surround?
Surely, thought bowsprite, the regal lady, constant on her station on Liberty’s isle hence, will today stand down and follow this fleet to the north.
Up into the North River they all made way. By now, bowsprite did comprehend, an icon’s return
necessitated a quick descent earthward to retrieve her speedy steed, possibly gather reinforcements, and gallop along Hudson’s bank to see where this worthy band would make anchorage.
Of course, the intrepid vessel is–Intrepid, whose career spanned from 1943, saw suicide attacks of another generation, recovered space travelers, and now still serves as education for the future. Anyone have fotos of CV-11 headed under the Brooklyn Bridge in 1965?
All fotos here, compliments of bowsprite.
No more sails using this jib.
All these shots were taken in a 24-hour period recently, the one above and all those below.
Four kids in this small sailboat seemed to cut dangerously close to Buchanan 12 pushing eleven gravel barges toward Haverstraw. By the way, at 3000 hp, the big Buchanan 12 generates less horsepower than the MK V (Mako’s) featured in Speed and 1 and 2 posts, not torque, just horsepower.
Lettie G. Howard sails past the Hess tanks in Edgewater, NJ. Check this link for a 1989 shot of Lettie!
Pride of Baltimore 2 with only the topsail set takes passengers toward Ellis Island. Check this in case you wonder about the 2.
Clearwater sails northward toward Tappan Zee Bridge. The festival this year coincides with the solstice in case you’re not going to Coney Island.
Mystic Whaler heads past Storm King toward West Point. Support your local sail.
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