Peregrinus lies at anchor tonight on the Back River, downstream of Newport News and of Hampton, and almost below the landing path to Langley Field, established in 1916 and named after astronomer and aviation pioneer Samuel P. Langley.
We got our own little airshow as a squadron of four of these F-22 practiced a bunch of aborted landings and go-arounds.
The trailing edge of Peregrinus' new mainsail and a screaming F22 above. 4:24PM, 18 November 2014, iPhone 4S.
Union Station, Baltimore, built in 1911 by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in Beaux-Arts style. K. M. Murchison, architect.
The station was renamed as Pennsylvania Station in 1928.
7 November 2014. iPhone 4S.
The Peabody Institute Library (1878). In the lobby, they had an amusing exhibit on Fakes, Lies, and Forgeries. That evening, we went to a Peabody Modern Orchestra concert.
5 November 2014. iPhone 4S.
Henri Amel liked to name his boat models after the winds he sailed.
The boat on the left, Fiasco, is an Amel Sharki. The Sharki is a seasonal wind of the Middle East that comes from the south and the southeast. It blows from April to June, and again from September to November.
Peregrinus is an Amel Super Maramu. The Maramu is also southeast wind, but it blows in Polynesia. It often brings good, dry weather.
9 November 2014. iPhone 4S.
Fiasco, an Amel Sharki, and Peregrinus, an Amel Super Maramu, docked at the Recreation Pier in Fells Point for a quick breakfast at Jimmy's, one block away. Yelp tells you all you need to know about Jimmy's:
Politically incorrect times are good times.
Photo by Jian Feng, 12 May 2014. Canon EOS 70D, ISO 100, 1/1600". In the far shore: NE Brasil, U27. This Navio Escola is a modified Niterói-class frigate. We wanted to visit it, but the Brazilians began the tours at 2:00pm. On the other hand, we visited the KNM Statsraad Lehmkuhl. The Norwegians were open for business from 10:00am and onwards.
The A. J. Meerwald, an oyster dredging schooner, commissioned by the Meerwald family of New Jersey in 1928, to exploit the bivalve industry in the Zuid Rivier.
Before the Dutch settled this island at the mouth of the Noortrivier in 1624 as a defensive position to maintain their colony in today’s Albany, they traded with the Indians here since 1611, from their ships.
In 1613, a Spaniard mulatto, born in Santo Domingo, arrived here as crew on the Jonge Tobias, a Dutch trading vessel. At the end of the trading season, rather than having to travel back to Holland with the ship, this Caribbean guy hitched up with a native girl and cashed out on his salary by persuading the captain to leave him in Manhattan with eighty hatchets and number of knives as trading goods, plus a sword, and a musket.
And so Juan Rodriguez became the first immigrant to New York City, 401 years ago.
Tonight Peregrinus anchors near where the Jonge Tobias may one day have anchored. The skyline certainly looks much better now.
At the left edge, The Empire State Building, illuminated in red. Right of it, with a white spire, the Chrysler Building. In the center, the World Trade Center buildings (WTC One opens Nov 3, 2014), and to their right, Wall Street and Downtown.
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, Gatsby and Nick live in West Egg, the Buchanans live in East Egg, and Jay spends many a night gazing across the bay at the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. But what separates Jay from Daisy is more than water.
Fitzgerald's imaginary locations were based on places he knew. The action is in Long Island, in the road to New York, and in the city itself. West Egg is Great Neck (at Kings Point); East Egg is Port Washington (at Sands Point), and tonight we spend on a mooring almost in the middle between the two, in Manhasset Bay, Gatsby's impassable gulf.
The map is interactive. Pan east to see Oyster Bay; pan west to see New York.
Peregrinus came with a full Amel-branded dinner set in melamine, a dinnerware material that evoked memories of childhood among the crew. It is not ideal for microwave use because it warms up as quickly as the food itself, but otherwise it is perfect for a boat: it is light, resistant to breaking or chipping, and looks great after repeated use. One day in the children's department at Arango in Miami we came across these melamine Alphabet plates and bowls, and snapped a set right away. These are made by Design Letters, which secured permission from the Arne Jacobsen estate to use the font he designed in 1937 for the City Hall in Århus.
The serving fountains are Alessi’s Programma 8, by Franco Sargiani and Eija Helander, a collection originally designed in the 1970’s and extended in 2005. Aside from being rational design pieces, these are practical because they go from oven to table to dishwasher. The Programma 8 tray, not shown, is ideal for carrying all the pieces in one trip when dining on deck.
Notice there’s no wine on the table? We are beginning to run out!
--- Domenico Vacca
The view after sunset at Cold Spring Harbor tonight. Tomorrow we sail for Oyster Bay. iPhone 4S.
