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We are proud to report our drydock campaign was a huge success! With only $12,000 of debt remaining, we are now focused on our winter curriculum. We need your support to sustain and expand our programs so please consider a contribution.
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Captain's Log, 03.01.03The winter grip of 2003 is letting go. Funny how the winter dragged by and the last few weeks have flown. Finally after months of waiting, Kevin Hennings and I have had warm weather sufficient to be able pour a small amount of concrete into a void in the 12” X 12” Deckhouse Log running along the top of the barge’s hull. We dug out losts of rot last fall when we started to replace the outer deckhouse walkways and found deterioration in both that timber and removed the 6” X 8” top hull plank below the walkway. Still lots of planks to replace above the waterline as well as put back the rubbing timbers. David Pearce recently uncovered a photo of the LV 83 that was built during the same period as LV79 with the original second story cabin. Plans have been located in the archives of the ARHS (Anthrocite Railroad Historical Society. Garry Pace, Baltimore Firefighter, Model Maker has made 2 barge models and informs me that there is a covered barge model kit to soon be available. Winter’s in-kind donation category brought us Docking & Electrical Service from Gowanus Industrial Park, Electrical Installation at our new Gowanus Bay site by Petrocelli Electric and Thomas Van Arsdale, Steven Schwartz and Howard Cohen of IBEW Local #3, railroad ties from Bob Diamond and the BRHS Trolley Project, Clamps from Adjustable Clamp and Golten Marine, Cement, Sand and Stone from Quadrozzi Cement, Barge Supplies from McMaster-Carr , Pier Drainage Work by Con Edison Community Affairs & Economic Development and SICON Contractors. |
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What a delight it is to see youth on the barge again. Several school groups have come and continue provide interesting wrong answers to those same basic questions. “What color is the water? “Green, Brown, Blue” they reply. Do you think I can move the barge with my own two hands? “NOOOOO” they resoundingly reply! As I wonder where the motor to the barge might be located , I hear “In the Back”, “On the Bottom”, “On the sides!” Funny, you would think these students didn’t live on islands? They leave empowered with new perspectives and lots of first hand knowledge about their own backyard water highway.
Borough President Marty Markowitz and Councilman David Yassky will co-host the Waterfront Museum’s “mini-conference” to lauch a haborwide campaign to address the need for community landings designed for historic ships and their educational programs. So far many have given their time and resources to the project including, Jon Benquiat, Marianne Koval, Carter Craft, Owen Foote, Tony Conte (Recycled Plastic Dolphin Manufacturer) and historic ship operators including Capt. Pamela Hepburn (Tugboat Pegasus Preservation Project), Huntley Gill (John J. Harvey Fireboat), Jimmy Gallagher (Yankee Ferry) from the North River Historic Ship Association. |
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Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez has secured an appropriation earmarked for the Waterfront Museum’s education and arts programs for the coming year.
In regards to programs, CIRCUSundays 2003 has 5 Sundays coming at 1 & 4:40 PM in June, The SUNSET MUSIC SERIES will be both at LIBERTY HEIGHTS TAPROOM on Saturdays July 12 & 19th at 8 PM plus aboard the Barge during the afternoons of July 20th and 27th. David has a promise due Budd Schulberg to show “ON THE WATERFRONT” and the lines are open for those great weddings and private special events. The Waterfront Museum has artifacts scheduled to be in the upcoming Brooklyn Historical Society’s exhibition in their newly restored home. It’s great to be back in Buisness! |
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