Still More Sail 6

I’ve not added to this series so long now that rumor is I’m becoming pariah among those who harness the wind. Sincere apologies! I’m totally with you all, just . . . uh . . . breathless?

 

South Street’s Pioneer above and Pride of Baltimore II with unidentified escorts below. Would you believe the foto below was taken less than a quarter mile from the Battery on a supremely hazy early autumn day?

 

A green stripe along the jib . . . might it be– could it possibly be– Green Lantern?

 

Ventura (Herreshoff built for the founder of Citibank) heads north framed by a Trump Building (green roof) and westside pillars of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.

 

Adirondack and Pride of Baltimore II, bow to bow.

 

About my absence . . .well Aeolus has been doing to me what he’s done to others, and I’m up to what Cavafy prayed for.

Photos, WVD.

Tenders

or are they dinghys? Ventura pulls one on a painter. I guess that word might have the same origin as pendant.

 

Half Moon slings a similar inflatable on its port side, sort of like a hypalon child.

 

Tanker Great Gull has one made off to the rail under a davit.

 

Brandywine has one on a cradle.

 

and W. O. Decker seems to be in negotiation. Will Decker or won’t she?

 

All photos, Will Van Dorp.