Photo: Deborah Feingold
On Monday, April 8 at 8:00 PM at the New York Academy of Medicine, Rosanne Cash is singing at a benefit concert to help save the schooner Lettie G. Howard.
Rosanne Cash is a gifted, Grammy award winning singer/songwriter and the Lettie G. Howard is an exceptionally beautiful schooner celebrating her 120th birthday this year. The Lettie G. Howard, a wooden Fredonia schooner built in Essex, Massachusetts in 1893, is, not surprisingly, showing her age. When she was drydocked at the Mystic Seaport in CT in 2012 to repair rot in her keelson, they discovered that the rot was far more extensive than originally thought. The cost of the repairs, of course, was also significantly higher than budgeted. (See our previous post – Help Save the Schooner Lettie G. Howard.) The South Street Seaport Museum has undertaken a capital campaign to raise $250,000 for critical repairs and restoration to the beautiful old schooner and is more than halfway to reaching that goal. Now, Rosanne Cash is raising her voice to to help raise the necessary cash, so to speak, to finish the job. Click here to learn more about the benefit concert. Donors at the Jib level and above will be invited to join Rosanne Cash for a champagne reception following the performance.
UPDATE: The Soldini Maserati team set a new New York to San Francisco sailing record of 47 days, 2 hours and 33 minutes, breaking the previous record by ten days.
There is virtually no place on earth beyond its reach. No, not the US Navy. Starbucks. The coffee seller is now even opening a store on a navy warship, the amphibious assault ship, 
There is a fire in one of two engine rooms on a cruise ship. The fire is extinguished but the damage has been done. The cruise ship blacks out – losing power and most electricity. The ship is adrift in the ocean. There is so hot food, hot water, or air conditioning for the several thousand passengers and crew aboard the ship. Conditions aboard become extremely uncomfortable as sewage systems back up, food in refrigerators rot, and the temperatures below decks become sweltering. Finally, tugs are hired to tow the ship into the nearest port.
An engine room fire has knocked out the propulsion and the primary electrical system on the cruise ship Carnival Triumph in the Gulf of Mexico off the Yucatan Peninsula. Emergency generators are providing limited power to the passenger areas. The ship will be towed to to Progreso, Mexico and is expected to arrive on Wednesday. There have been no reported injuries among the 4,000 passengers and crew reported to be aboard the ship. Carnival Triumph is a post-Panamax Destiny/Triumph-class cruise ship, built in 1999, operated by Carnival Cruise Lines, sailing on 4 and 5 day voyages from Galveston, Texas to the Western Caribbean. Thanks to Phil Leon for contributing to the post.
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