Category Archives: sea

A FINE DAY FOR SAILING by Peter Nolan Smith

August 30, 2024 – 11:17 am

My grandmother hailed from County Mayo in Ireland. Her last name was Walsh. At the age of fourteen Nana traveled to Boston by ship. Most of the other passengers were cattle. “It was an awful crossing. Storms most of the way. We sailed in the Year of the Crow,” she told her grandchildren in her […]

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The SS Showboat Mayflower Nantasket

August 30, 2024 – 3:11 am

From 2012 A fleet of side wheel steamers plied the waters of Boston harbor in the early part of the 20th Century. The flotilla was reduced to one by a fire in 1919. The Mayflower remained in service until 1948. After its decommission its new owner had the white-hulled ship hauled close to shore several […]

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Riis Park – August 17, 2024

August 23, 2024 – 10:29 am

At the beach Yesterday Sea Waves Wind Warm Sand Shifts Beneath my feet

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Off To Rockaway – Full Speed Ahead

May 8, 2024 – 9:53 am

May 7 Seven months in New York Like a marooned sailor Like Richard Burton The Nile explorer On the beach in Trieste Ships sailing away on the Adriatic Burton going nowhere Like me. But Today I stand on A Wall Street Wharf Not a hint of winter on the river Spring 75 Sunny I am […]

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Down to the Sea RIP

December 17, 2023 – 8:22 pm

Last July my fellow Explorers Club members Hamish Harding and Paul-Henri Nargeolet along with Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, were lost, when the Titan, a five-man pressuried submersible imploded on a dive to the RMS Titanic at the bottom of he North Atlantic. On e the surface support ship lost contact, a […]

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