Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Bits of Wood Boats in Old Mystic, CT

American Dream: Working as a Ferry Pilot?

By Norma Jaeger Hopcraft

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As a lovely ferry boat approaches you on the dock on the Jersey side of the Hudson River, you wonder if it wouldn't be a far better life if you were a ferry boat captain...

I've thought it! How about you?

I found a place in Old Mystic, CT that repairs wooden boats. There are also parts of wooden boats scatter all over.

The Bobby D must have served Watch Hill, Rhode Island, or maybe Watch Hill, Fire Island, both waterside communities. It must have been a handsome boat.

Here's another pilot house from a grand old ferry that used to give people who couldn't own a boat the pleasure of being on the water.


The pilot house of the Anne.



There's a few other wooden structures around the place, this one a bath house...



And this one just for fun. Imagine a wooden gazebo in your own yard! How about you? Do you feel nostalgia for a grand time in American history, when wooden ferry boats plied the Long Island Sound? Maybe a time that never was? Comment below! 

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