Featured Books
True Colours by Alaric Bond
Schooner: Building a Wooden Boat on Martha's Vineyard by Dunlop & Shaw
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
18th Century Ship Found Buried at New York’s World Trade Center Site
Workers excavating at the new World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan have uncovered the remains of an 18th century wooden merchant ship. The ship was found 20 feet below street level, is roughly 30 feet in length and was probably buried intentionally as land fill. It was found in an area outside that which had been previously excavated for the original World Trade Center complex and appears to have remained undisturbed since it was buried in the mid to late 1700s.
18th-Century Ship Found at Trade Center Site
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Windmills in New York Harbor – Isaac Edge’s Windmill 1815-1839
Edge's Windmill
Yesterday we posted about a proposed wind farm on New York harbor between Jersey City and Bayonne. These will not be the first windmills on the harbor, of course. In 1815 Isaac Edge finished a windmill on the banks of the Hudson River in Jersey City. From Jersey City and its Historic Sites by Harriet Phillips Eaton, published in 1899:
EDGE’S WINDMILL
Pirate Weekend in Newburgh, NY and Real Pirates Charged in Norfolk
This week HMS Bounty, the replica ship built for the 1960 movie, “Mutiny on the Bounty,” will be the centerpiece of the “Pirate Weekend” in Newburgh, New York, on the Hudson River, sixty miles north of new York City. The Bounty has also been featured in over a dozen films and television shows, including 1989′s “Treasure Island” with Charlton Heston, “Muppet Treasure Island” and the second and third “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies.
Pirate Weekend sails into Newburgh waterfront
In other news, eleven men have been charged with piracy in federal court in Norfolk, Va related to two attacks on US naval vessels off the coast of Somalia.
Pirate Suspects From Somalia Charged in U.S.
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
