Re: Museums?
Not quite a museum, but the AJ Meerwald might be interesting to
you. It is a restored South Jersey oyster schooner that will take
you for a sail. There used to be several hundred of these boats
working the Delaware Bay before the oysters got sick. The Delaware
Bay Schooner Project is working on establishing a museum to the Bay
and the oystering industry. Prhaps you'd like to help? Check out
http://www.ajmeerwald.org/.
Tom Etherington
Just starting to qualify as volunteer Meerwald crew.
you. It is a restored South Jersey oyster schooner that will take
you for a sail. There used to be several hundred of these boats
working the Delaware Bay before the oysters got sick. The Delaware
Bay Schooner Project is working on establishing a museum to the Bay
and the oystering industry. Prhaps you'd like to help? Check out
http://www.ajmeerwald.org/.
Tom Etherington
Just starting to qualify as volunteer Meerwald crew.
--- In bolger@y..., "Dirk Leas" <dirkLeas@m...> wrote:
> Recently relocated to the right coast and am looking for some good
boat
> museums -- any recommendations around the Princeton, NJ area (e.g.
w/n a
> couple of hour drive)?
>
> TIA,
> D
Come right down the coast to the Eastern Shore of MD, to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Mus. at St
Michaels, just West of Easton. If you do it this weekend, you'll find the Mid Atlantic Small Craft
Fest, which is quite a gathering. Clyde
Dirk Leas wrote:
Michaels, just West of Easton. If you do it this weekend, you'll find the Mid Atlantic Small Craft
Fest, which is quite a gathering. Clyde
Dirk Leas wrote:
> Recently relocated to the right coast and am looking for some good boat
> museums -- any recommendations around the Princeton, NJ area (e.g. w/n a
> couple of hour drive)?
>
> TIA,
> D
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Another option which I don't think was mentioned yet is the Chesapeake Bay
Maritime Museum in St. Michaels Maryland. However, this is probably about a
three plus hour drive for you. This coming weekend October 5th, 6th and 7th
they are having there annual Mid-Atlantic Small Craft festival. Ray
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Maritime Museum in St. Michaels Maryland. However, this is probably about a
three plus hour drive for you. This coming weekend October 5th, 6th and 7th
they are having there annual Mid-Atlantic Small Craft festival. Ray
>From: "Dirk Leas" <dirkLeas@...>_________________________________________________________________
>Reply-To:bolger@yahoogroups.com
>To: <openboat@yahoogroups.com>, <bolger@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [bolger] Museums?
>Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 08:48:01 -0400
>
>Recently relocated to the right coast and am looking for some good boat
>museums -- any recommendations around the Princeton, NJ area (e.g. w/n a
>couple of hour drive)?
>
>TIA,
>D
>
>
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If you're willing to drive south a few hours (Mapquest says 4 hours,
for 165 miles from Princeton), the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is
quite nice. They've got exhibits on the working life of the bay
(oystering, etc.), a Chesapeake-style screwpile lighthouse,
skipjacks, and -- my favorite -- the small boat shed, with types you
won't see to the north, like the Sharptown Barge (a narrow flat-
bottomed skiff for shad fishing), log canoes (which are still raced
under sail), double-ended crabbing skiffs, and "Bessie Lee," a lovely
18 foot ketch-rigged v-bottomed sailing skiff.
As it happens, next weekend's a great time to be there, as the
museum's hosting the Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival (details at
www.cbmm.org). Last year a Micro and Martha Jane showed up, in
addition to lots of traditional small boats, including a couple of
lovely restored sailing canoes.
Steve Paskey
for 165 miles from Princeton), the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is
quite nice. They've got exhibits on the working life of the bay
(oystering, etc.), a Chesapeake-style screwpile lighthouse,
skipjacks, and -- my favorite -- the small boat shed, with types you
won't see to the north, like the Sharptown Barge (a narrow flat-
bottomed skiff for shad fishing), log canoes (which are still raced
under sail), double-ended crabbing skiffs, and "Bessie Lee," a lovely
18 foot ketch-rigged v-bottomed sailing skiff.
As it happens, next weekend's a great time to be there, as the
museum's hosting the Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival (details at
www.cbmm.org). Last year a Micro and Martha Jane showed up, in
addition to lots of traditional small boats, including a couple of
lovely restored sailing canoes.
Steve Paskey
--- In bolger@y..., "Dirk Leas" <dirkLeas@m...> wrote:
> Recently relocated to the right coast and am looking for some good
boat
> museums -- any recommendations around the Princeton, NJ area (e.g.
w/n a
> couple of hour drive)?
>
> TIA,
> D
Peter,
Indeed he would/should! Sounds like a rather pleasent road trip
is in order.Well worth any time off away from les banalité de la vie!
I sure know I would do it again,if I hadn't blown most of my vacation
time cruising off to the Lake Champlain Bolger Messabout,which was
very very nice.Too bad you weren't able to come by!
Sincerely,
Peter Lenihan
Indeed he would/should! Sounds like a rather pleasent road trip
is in order.Well worth any time off away from les banalité de la vie!
I sure know I would do it again,if I hadn't blown most of my vacation
time cruising off to the Lake Champlain Bolger Messabout,which was
very very nice.Too bad you weren't able to come by!
Sincerely,
Peter Lenihan
--- In bolger@y..., pvanderw@o... wrote:
> Goodness gracious, Peter, if he is going to go all that way, he has
> to stop at the Herreshoff Museum in Bristol, RI as well. - PHV
>
> --- In bolger@y..., ellengaest@b... wrote:
> > ....and if you ever make the time to get up to Mystic Seaport,you
> may
> > as well make more time,carry on a bit further east and check out
> the
> > whaling museum in New Bedford.Great history of your countrys
> > involvement in that particular industry,some really fine models
> > downstairs and one really big model that would make any amateur
> proud!
> > And to cap off your visit,you can head up-hill a block away and
> spend
> > the night at a B&B that was once the home of Herman Melville
sister
> > and where the author of Moby Dick reputedly spent some time.
> > Peter
Lenihan,
> > recalling some mighty fine blueberry crêpes and english cream
> > sauce,served for breakfast in the above mentioned B&B,so long
> ago....
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In bolger@y..., pvanderw@o... wrote:
> > > > Recently relocated to the right coast and am looking for some
> good
> > > boat museums -- any recommendations around the Princeton, NJ
area.
> > >
> >
> > >
> > > Mystic Seaport will take about 3 1/2 hours. The Connecticut
River
> > > Museum in Essex CT is hardly worth a trip on its own, but is
well
> > > worth seeing if you are in the area.
> > >
> > > Peter
Dirk,
If you want to spend a weekend leaf-peeping, and find the smell of
balsam as pleasant as that of the sea, you might want to check out
the Adirondack Museum in Blue Lake, NY. They have guideboats aplenty,
and much more. It's a long drive for you, though....
porky
If you want to spend a weekend leaf-peeping, and find the smell of
balsam as pleasant as that of the sea, you might want to check out
the Adirondack Museum in Blue Lake, NY. They have guideboats aplenty,
and much more. It's a long drive for you, though....
porky
--- In bolger@y..., "Dirk Leas" <dirkLeas@m...> wrote:
> Recently relocated to the right coast and am looking for some good
boat
> museums -- any recommendations around the Princeton, NJ area (e.g.
w/n a
> couple of hour drive)?
>
> TIA,
> D
Goodness gracious, Peter, if he is going to go all that way, he has
to stop at the Herreshoff Museum in Bristol, RI as well. - PHV
to stop at the Herreshoff Museum in Bristol, RI as well. - PHV
--- In bolger@y..., ellengaest@b... wrote:
> ....and if you ever make the time to get up to Mystic Seaport,you
may
> as well make more time,carry on a bit further east and check out
the
> whaling museum in New Bedford.Great history of your countrys
> involvement in that particular industry,some really fine models
> downstairs and one really big model that would make any amateur
proud!
> And to cap off your visit,you can head up-hill a block away and
spend
> the night at a B&B that was once the home of Herman Melville sister
> and where the author of Moby Dick reputedly spent some time.
> Peter Lenihan,
> recalling some mighty fine blueberry crêpes and english cream
> sauce,served for breakfast in the above mentioned B&B,so long
ago....
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In bolger@y..., pvanderw@o... wrote:
> > > Recently relocated to the right coast and am looking for some
good
> > boat museums -- any recommendations around the Princeton, NJ area.
> >
>
> >
> > Mystic Seaport will take about 3 1/2 hours. The Connecticut River
> > Museum in Essex CT is hardly worth a trip on its own, but is well
> > worth seeing if you are in the area.
> >
> > Peter
....and if you ever make the time to get up to Mystic Seaport,you may
as well make more time,carry on a bit further east and check out the
whaling museum in New Bedford.Great history of your countrys
involvement in that particular industry,some really fine models
downstairs and one really big model that would make any amateur proud!
And to cap off your visit,you can head up-hill a block away and spend
the night at a B&B that was once the home of Herman Melville sister
and where the author of Moby Dick reputedly spent some time.
Peter Lenihan,
recalling some mighty fine blueberry crêpes and english cream
sauce,served for breakfast in the above mentioned B&B,so long ago....
as well make more time,carry on a bit further east and check out the
whaling museum in New Bedford.Great history of your countrys
involvement in that particular industry,some really fine models
downstairs and one really big model that would make any amateur proud!
And to cap off your visit,you can head up-hill a block away and spend
the night at a B&B that was once the home of Herman Melville sister
and where the author of Moby Dick reputedly spent some time.
Peter Lenihan,
recalling some mighty fine blueberry crêpes and english cream
sauce,served for breakfast in the above mentioned B&B,so long ago....
--- In bolger@y..., pvanderw@o... wrote:
> > Recently relocated to the right coast and am looking for some good
> boat museums -- any recommendations around the Princeton, NJ area.
>
>
> Mystic Seaport will take about 3 1/2 hours. The Connecticut River
> Museum in Essex CT is hardly worth a trip on its own, but is well
> worth seeing if you are in the area.
>
> Peter
> Recently relocated to the right coast and am looking for some goodboat museums -- any recommendations around the Princeton, NJ area.
The Seaport Museum in Philadelphia is quite interesting. The current
name may be the Liberty Seaport Museum. It's right on the river. Next
to it are some historical ships, including one of Teddy Roosevelt's
Great White Fleet and a submarine. The Museum has some very nice
Tuckups and other small boats, but the real focus is on the history
of the port of Phila. They also build boats at the Boatshop on the
Water.
There is South Street Seaport in Manhattan. Take the train.
Embarassing to say, I have never been there.
Mystic Seaport will take about 3 1/2 hours. The Connecticut River
Museum in Essex CT is hardly worth a trip on its own, but is well
worth seeing if you are in the area.
Peter
Recently relocated to the right coast and am looking for some good boat
museums -- any recommendations around the Princeton, NJ area (e.g. w/n a
couple of hour drive)?
TIA,
D
museums -- any recommendations around the Princeton, NJ area (e.g. w/n a
couple of hour drive)?
TIA,
D