On a recent visit to the Deltaville Maritime Museum, a display of Pond Model boats captured my attention. More than 150 models of various kinds of boats, from tugboats to sailboats, are on display. This exhibit is a collection of pond boats amassed by Genevieve…
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Nestled in the lush green countryside of Marseillan in the South of France there is a place called Domaine Tarboriech. Domaine Tarbouriech occupies a charming holiday home dating back to the 18th century. The town of Marseillan dates back to the 6th century BC. Through…
Boating on the beautiful clear waters of Lake Champlain it is hard to imagine that beneath the often sunlit sparking surface with its majestic background there lurking several invasive species that if left unchecked would devastate the ecosystem of this vast body of water. And…
The literal translation of the Arabic word dahabiya is the English word “Golden”. A dahabiya is a unique shallow draft boat that looks more like a barge than a boat and is propelled by the wind, river current or oars. It is a boat with…
Running aground was one of the major causes of shipwrecks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Entering New York Harbor, for example, required a sailing vessel to make a long funnel-like approach. According to Dr. Dennis Noble, writing in his book A LEGACY: THE UNITED…
New York harbor was teaming with tugs, barges, ferries, sightseeing boats, and the added excitement of the arrival of the SS United States. We were traveling south, headed for Brooklyn on our way home from a boating vacation on Lake Champlain. Moran tugs were getting…
When the topic of the Panama Canal comes up, the last name mentioned is probably Balboa. Yet in 1513, Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the isthmus of Panama and discovered it to be only a narrow strip of land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.…
A New York Boat Show ticket at the Javits Center costs $20. It is always a wonderful show. However, if your taste goes to the larger luxury yachts, you might want to take a quick flight to Port Hercule, Monaco, for the Monaco Yacht Show…
Here is a marine problem to tease the brain. How do you lift a 133,500-ton cruise ship that is nearly as long as the Eiffel Tower is high? This modern cruise ship is over 1000 feet long and 158 feet wide and needed to be…
If asked who the most successful pirate was, most people would say Black Beard. While Black Beard achieved great fame and fortune, Ching Shih is the name of the most successful pirate in history. What is even more incredible is that Ching Shih was a…