Mon 2 Nov 2009
U.S.S. New York Crew Recalls Its Own 9/11 Ties
Filed under: September 11 (2001), United States Defense and Military Forces, Boats and Boating, United States Marine Corps, World Trade Center (NYC), United States Navy, New York City — @ 6:35 am

The Navy’s newest ship, with steel from the wreckage of the World Trade Center forged into its bow, arrives in New York on Monday.


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Sat 31 Oct 2009
Wood to Steel, a Long Line of Ships Named New York
Filed under: Submarines, Arnold, Benedict, U.S.S. New York, United States Defense and Military Forces, World War II (1939-45), Boats and Boating, World Trade Center (NYC) — @ 4:55 am

The newest vessel is the seventh to bear the name, and some hope that a connection to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will make the legacy of this one more memorable.


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Fri 30 Oct 2009
A Voyage Bearing a Memory
Filed under: Defense Department, U.S.S. New York, Lewis, Frank, September 11 (2001), Boats and Boating, United States Marine Corps, Pataki, George E, World Trade Center (NYC) — @ 1:37 am

The U.S.S. New York, whose bow includes steel recycled from the World Trade Center, began its journey to New York City from Norfolk, Va.


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Sun 30 Aug 2009
Hitching Rides Up Henry Hudson’s River
Filed under: Boats and Boating, Hudson, Henry, Rivers, Hudson River — @ 4:20 am

The writer set off by kayak (he’d tied it to a taxi) before getting a ride on the replica Half Moon. He left it the next morning north of the Tappan Zee.A reporter set out in a kayak to mark the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s exploration of the majestic waterway that now bears his name.


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Sat 29 Aug 2009
Hitchhiking the Hudson
Filed under: Boats and Boating, Hudson, Henry, Rivers, Hudson River — @ 1:51 pm

The writer set off by kayak (he’d tied it to a taxi) before getting a ride on the replica Half Moon. He left it the next morning north of the Tappan Zee.Four hundred years later, our nimble reporter follows Henry upriver on a replica of the explorer’s Half Moon and aboard a borrowed kayak, a 50-foot yacht and an aging Lincoln Town Car.


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Fri 12 Jun 2009
Summer Rituals | Boat Club: Where Blue-Collar Boys Hoist a Sail, and a Beer
Filed under: College Point (NYC), Boats and Boating, Blue Collar Workers — @ 12:10 am

A member, Paul Woolhizer, right, helped get a craft in the East River. Tony Tondo, far left, the club’s commodore, raised the flag on the season.College Point Yacht Club in Queens is no fancy establishment, and given the members’ D.I.Y. spirit and preference for Budweiser, that’s the way they like it.

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Thu 4 Jun 2009
A Fluid Definition of Self-Sufficiency
Filed under: Sustainable Living, Boats and Boating — @ 6:51 am

The Waterpod, a 30-by-100-foot barge, will be a home for five months as part of a project studying self-sufficient water-based living. Four artists have created the Waterpod, a barge on which they live sustainably for five months, docking at various locations around New York City.

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Tue 24 Mar 2009
Two Dead, Four Missing as Fishing Boat Sinks Off N.J.
Filed under: Fishing, Commercial, Boats and Boating, United States Coast Guard, Accidents and Safety, New Jersey — @ 10:17 pm

The United States Coast Guard said it was continuing to search a 15-square-mile swath of the chilly Atlantic for the four crewmen.

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Tue 24 Mar 2009
One Dead and Four Missing as Fishing Boat Sinks Off N.J.
Filed under: Fishing, Commercial, Boats and Boating, United States Coast Guard, Accidents and Safety, New Jersey — @ 6:36 pm

The Coast Guard was searching a 15-square-mile swath of the chilly Atlantic for the crew of a fishing boat that sank 65 miles off the coast of Cape May, N.J.

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Thu 19 Feb 2009
For Queens Man, Second Try at Rowing the Atlantic for AIDS Awareness
Filed under: Mooney, Victor, Rowing, Boats and Boating, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome — @ 4:04 am

A 43-year-old man is making a second attempt at rowing a boat 8,000 miles from Senegal to Brooklyn to raise awareness about AIDS prevention.

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