At the end of last October, the South Street Museum’s Waterfront Director, Captain Jonathan Boulware, and his crew of staff and volunteers scrambled to secure the museum’s historic ships, including two aged windjammers, moored on the East River, before they were struck by Superstorm’s Sandy’s storm surge. They successfully kept the ships afloat and undamaged. Sadly, the same could not be said of the seaport itself or the shore-based Seaport Museum which suffered an estimated $22 million in damage.
Now, the Museum of the City of New York has pulled out of the management of the museum, and Captain Boulware has been appointed interim president. Together with a transitional board of three trustees, he is tasked with overseeing the historic ships as well as the museum’s operations and collections. The transitional board made up of Christie Huus, David Sheehan and Tracey Knuckles is seeking new management and funding for the troubled museum. The challenges of keeping the struggling museum afloat may dwarf those of saving the fleet from the ravages of Sandy.
I will admit that I am not a lover of wooden vessels. An admirer from afar, perhaps. The truth is that I am afraid of rot. I don’t understand it, and, as is often the case, I fear what I don’t understand. And, I doubt that I would like rot, even if I did understand it. Frankly, I like fiberglass. There I said it. And I am not ashamed.
How much would sea levels fall if all ships were removed all at once from the oceans of the world? Far less than you might think.
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This year the 4th of July fireworks in New York, sponsored by Macys, will be set off over the Hudson River. The 
In 1955, Ted Hood founded Hood Sailmakers at the back of Maddie’s Bar in Marblehead. Hood Sailmakers would grow to be a premier sail maker in the 1960s and 1970s. Hood was also a boatbuilder, designer and sailor. In 1974 he built the 12-meter yacht Courageous and sailed it to victory in the America’s Cup. Ted Hood was inducted into the America’s Cup Hall of Fame and the National Sailing Hall of Fame. Ted Hood died last Friday at the age of 86.
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