Ah Kendall, you passed your qualification exam...
Yes, dont explain the center board cook!
Well, looks like this cruse is shaping up, but the steven tabor, lovely schooner, but what folk musican has 700 bucks to spare?
WInter cruse story... I was the chief mate on a bug eye rigged skip jack - that we ran as a cattle boat out of Brooklynn. About this time of year, or latter, we got a call for a party to take a cruse in New York bay, and out past the Verisano Bridge, and it was BLOODY FREEZING! They had brought some lovely mulled wine, and were as happy as pigs in shi... very happy. Finally we got up the gumption to ask why the HELL had they decided to go tooling about the harbor in this freezing weather. It turns out they had all been crew in one of the vessles that survived that disasterous Fastnet race (the one where was it 1/3 the boats sank and Ted Turner won, and when asked to comment on the great loss of life, said something like, I won didnt I?) Well, after sailing through a gale like that, they do something stupid every year to celibrate!
I think if we work out a cruse, we should wait till it gets a bit warmer, eh?
If you want to see a maritime ghost... go down to the River Cafe, at the foot of the Brooklyn bridge. In the park infront of the river you will find an old windless. It was from a Gloster Fishing schooner wreck, that Zek Tilton took and put on the Alice Wentworth. She rotted away in that slip, and that windless is the ghost of Alice Wentworth.
How bout someone posting the song about Zek and the Alice
A man fit for hanging will never drown
Fit for hanging
Larry