Ceres Seasonal Starter

If you’re going to the market event in Manhattan today, look for signs like this, painted what must be Ceres

blue.  This is the west end of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, closest to Vinegar Hill.   Beyond the East River there, protruding into the sky to the right, that’s the empire State Building.   Ceres has arrived, and

on schedule!

Inside this warehouse, I picked up my order of Ricker Hill Orchards vinegar and Champlain Valley Apiaries  honey.

Excuse the poor quality foto.  Could someone explain the dried (?) birds’ wings?

There was seaweed . . .

pumpkins,

wild artichokes,   and much much more.

Agger Fish–right next to the warehouse–was a sponsor of the Brooklyn event, as were Brooklyn Grange, triple island, and Marlow & Daughters.

Morgan O’Kane played, parents shopped and talked, and and kids danced.

If you’re local and  have time, get down to the New Amsterdam Market today . . . on the opposite side of the river here.

Congratulations to Erik and the team for a very big accomplishment.  Although there’s lots of work left this season, season two starts up soon.   Here’s some preliminary info on the vessel, which was modified in the construction. In case you’re wondering . . . Erik’s estimate is that Ceres sailed only about twenty percent of the trip.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who alone is responsible for any errors in reporting.

Here, here, and here are my previous Ceres posts.   Last but not the least least . . . it’s bowsprite’s rendering.  Here’s the NYTimes version.

More Ceres 2

Progress report, first from Vladimir Brezina, of Windagainstcurrent.  In Vlad’s words, “I did see Ceres, motoring down the Hudson past Stockport Middle Ground, where we were camping, just a few minutes fter sunrise yesterday (Monday). At first I couldn’t believe that it was Ceres—she wasn’t sailing (there was no wind, but wouldn’t a PROPER sailing barge just wait for the wind?) and making quite a racket for an eco-friendly boat… ”

At first Vlad feared they gotten out for fotos too late.  Here’s more on Stockport Middle Ground.

After these fotos were taken, Ceres stopped in Hudson.

The following fotos taken yesterday come from Michael Kalin, who writes,  “North Germantown Reach. My wife & I launched from North Germantown Landing 10AM, paddled to Catskill, around Rogers Island, ate lunch, went back, lost hope, took out, looked upriver one more time and there she was!”

Thanks much to Vlad and Michael for these fabulous fotos.

The next fotos of Ceres I hope show full-bellied sails!   Click here for more on VSFP.

More Ceres

Vermont Sail Freight . . . south bound.  Click here for their ports of call and dates.   More fotos courtesy of Fred Wehner.

I’m eager to see them with masts stepped and sails billowing.

If anyone wishes to contribute fotos of the vessel making her way south and calling at ports headed south, please get in touch.