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Posts published in “April 2022”

Saga of the Resolute

Ice shrouded the rigging and angry seas swept over the deck as the Resolute plunged through the North Atlantic. Sailing out of New London, Connecticut on the whaler George Henry, Captain James Buddington found the British ship HMS Resolute locked in the ice, abandoned. The…

Royal Yacht

The British Royal Yacht Britannia was decommissioned in 1997 as a cost cutting measure. It certainly was impressive and added to the British image while providing a kind of floating British embassy with all the pomp and circumstance associated with British royalty.The building of a…

Throwing Light on Deck Prisms

Stumbling below decks with a lighted lantern or candle on a wooden ship had definite risks. Oil lamps could drip, spill over and light a ship afire in no time. Candles had similar dangers. Lord knows how many ships afire sunk into King Neptune’s world…

Ponder the Pelican

A wonderful bird is the pelican,His bill will hold more than his belly can.He can take in his beak,Food enough for a week,But I’m damned if I see how the helican.It is the state bird of Louisiana – whether perched atop a dock piling between…

Working Offshore

If you wanted to define water people you might say they need to be on the water, by the water, near the water or in the water. Water people find comfort sitting on a dock, swimming, fishing, crabbing, clamming, boating, surfing or just sitting in…

Menhaden – A Special Bait

The surface waters along the shore seem to come to a low boil with a school of menhaden thrashing just below the surface. With a breeze blowing the right way, one might even detect their foul, oily odor. Mossbunker, bunker, porgy, bug-head, and fat-back as…

Skippers Corner – Burgees versus Massive Flags!

We love our country. We all do! You may love certain politicians.That’s your right. You are proud to project that we are Italian, Irish, Israeli, British, etc.? It’s great we live in a country where we can display how we feel as long as it…