The following is an excerpt from The Sinking of the Steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound by longtime Boating World contributor Bill Bleyer that will be published May 1 by The History Press. On Monday, January 13, 1840, after boarding passengers and loading cargo, including…
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The remains of one of the most famous vessels in history may have washed up last fall at Fire Island National Seashore.A 13-foot-by-13-foot section of ribs and planking from what appears to be an early 19th century sailing vessel came ashore during Tropical Storm Ian…
Longtime sailor Harvey Bass had an epiphany after undergoing successful esophageal cancer surgery in 2002.“I was working at the Greenvale School, which is a very wealthy private school, and I grew up in a poorer neighborhood in Brooklyn,” the Sea Cliff resident related, “and I…
At age 74, Bill Kuchler figures he’ll run out of time before he runs out of lighthouses scenes to paint.Since retiring four years ago as an advertising creative director, the West Islip resident spends much of his time in the Blue Barn Studio, his name…
For the past year, First Harvest Navigation of Norwalk, Connecticut has been using its hybrid-powered vessel to transport supplies between its four-year-old Harbor Harvest food market in East Norwalk and a new one of the same name that it opened on the waterfront in Huntington…