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Fighting Temeraire by Sam Willis
Live Yankees: The Sewalls and Their Ships by W. H. Bunting
His Majesty's Ship by Alaric Bond
Galveston's the Elissa: The Tall Ship of Texas by Kurt Voss
My River Chronicles - Rediscovering the America on the Hudson by Jessica DuLong
The Frigate Surprise: The Complete Story of the Ship Made Famous in the Novels of Patrick O'Brian by by Geoff Hunt and Brian Lavery
James Nelson's George Washington's Secret Navy
Defying Empire:Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York by Thomas Truxes
Deadly Shoals, a Wiki Coffin Mystery by Joan Druett
Star Crossedby Linda Collison
The Privateer's Revenge: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea Adventures)
Peter Wicked: A Matty Graves Novel (The Matty Graves Novels)
The Jackass Frigate byAlaric Bond
Steady As She Goesby John Molloy
Voyages, the Age of Sail: Documents in American Maritime History, Volume I, 1492-1865
Expedition Whydah: The Story of the World's First Excavation of a Pirate Treasure Ship and the Man Who Found Her
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Oh Deer! Antlers in the Harbor
A few days ago, a white tailed deer was seen wandered among the brownstone and high-rise lined streets of downtown Jersey City. When it reached the Hudson River it jumped in and swam over a mile across the river to Governors Island. We have previously posted about seeing whales in New York harbor. I never expected deer. Which just shows how little I know. This was not the first deer going for a swim in the harbor this season. (Video and photos after the jump.)
Deer Swims From Jersey To Governors Island
Dutch flotilla makes its way north on Hudson River
Following up on our previous posts - Dutch Barges invade New York and The Dutch Barge Fleet has Arrived in New York. From the AP:
Dutch flotilla makes its way north on Hudson River
A flotilla of historic Dutch sailing ships is making its way up the Hudson River to mark this month’s 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage aboard the Half Moon.
Fireboat named for FDNY heroes killed on 9/11
From Marine Log:
A fireboat launched September 11, 2009 at Eastern Shipbuilding, Panama City, Fla. is named the Three Forty Three in honor of the 343 New York City firefighters killed at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
The Three Forty Three is expected to arrive in New York City in December and will be assigned to Marine 1, stationed on the Hudson River in Manhattan, replacing the 50-year-old John D. McKean.
The FDNY Marine Fleet consists of more than 30 vessels responsible for over 450 miles of coastline and harbors and has protected New York City residents for 134 years.
17th Annual North River Tugboat Challenge
If Gloucester has a schooner race, then New York really should have a tugboat race. And it does. Here is a short video I shot of the 17th Annual North River Tugboat Challenge last Sunday.
Labor Day Weekend Races & Events – Part 3:
17th Annual Hudson River Tugboat Race & Historic Ship Rally
This Saturday, September 5th, at Pier 84 on West 44th Street and the Hudson River in Manhattan, there will be a Historic Ship Rally featuring six historical vessels, with music and activities for kids. The rally will be followed by the 17th Annual Tugboat Race and Competition on Sunday the 6th. Following the one nautical mile race, there will be nose to nose pushing contests and line toss competition.
Hitchhiking the Hudson
Henry Hudson arrived in what is now New York harbor 400 years ago this month, and ventured as far north as Albany on the river that now bears his name. There is an interesting and somewhat amusing article and video in this morning’s New York Times. The Time’s Corey Kilgannon retraces Henry Hudson’s 1609 voyage up the river. Kilgannon starts in a borrowed kayak and then hitches rides with passing boats all the way up river to Albany, including a ride on the replica of Henry Hudson’s Half Moon. Click here or on the photo to watch the video.
From Sailor’s Rest to Trendy Hotel
Jane Hotel, once a sailor's boarding house
In 1908, the American Seamen’s Friend Society opened a boarding house for sailors on the west side of Manhattan just across from the Cunard Line docks. It was an imposing brick build on the corner of Jane and and West Streets with an octagonal corner tower topped by a beacon that shone out on the Hudson River. It had 156 rooms for seamen, and others for officers and engineers,and cooks and stewards. Charges were 25 cents a night for seamen and 50 cents for others. The surviving crew of the Titanic stayed there in April of 1912.
It has now been converted into the Jane Hotel, a trendy boutique hotel offering some of the least expensive lodgings in the city in the tiny rooms once intended for merchant sailors.
From today’s New York Times: Popeye Slept Here and Now Olive Oyl Can, Too
What is it about the Bounty?
The replica of HMS Bounty, used in the 1962 MGM movie “Mutiny on the Bounty“ starring Marlon Brando, is in New York at Pier 66 on the Hudson River. After nearly falling to pieces under the prior owner, the Bounty, almost 60 years old, is looking good once again and sailing extensively. I sailed on her briefly many years ago when she was not in such good shape. A constantly running motor driven pump was keeping her afloat and her foremast was de-rigged due to rot. It is great to see her back sailing again.
Seeing the Bounty reminded me of a question that I have never been able to fully answer - what it is about the ship and her story that is so compelling? The Bounty and the mutiny aboard her has inspired over 250 books, thousands of magazine articles, and five major movies. What is it about the events on the Bounty that made it the most famous mutiny in naval history?
The Crimson Pirates on the Waterfront Museum and Showboat Barge
Last Saturday, fellow bloggers Christina, Will, and Elizabeth and I listened to the rollicking sea tunes of the Crimson Pirates on the Lehigh Valley Railroad Barge No. 79, the Waterfront Museum and Showboat Barge, alongside the old Lackawanna Terminal on the Hudson River in Hoboken, NJ. A good time was had by all.
Update: Will has posted some great photos of Pegasus, the LV79 and the Crimson Pirates on his Tugster blog.
The “Miracle on the Hudson” and the Cosmic Muffin
The cable news networks have been playing and replaying the video of US Air flight 1549’s splash landing in the Hudson. The story is getting as overexposed as a nudist without sunscreen. Nevertheless, in honor of Captain Scully and his crew, we are posting a photo of the Cosmic Muffin, a rather remarkable plane transformed into a boat, this time on purpose.
Sailing on the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater from Rick Spilman on Vimeo.
The Clearwater is a Hudson River sloop modeled after the distinctive trading sloops that sailed up and down the Hudson in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Clearwater was conceived by the folk singer, Pete Seeger, as a way to bring people down to the then very polluted Hudson River. For close to forty years the Clearwater has been a movable classroom, laboratory and stage as she has sailed up and down the vast tidal estuary that is the Hudson River south of Albany. Read more
