Did you ever start doing something specific only to lose track of time and distance? I intended to go for a short walk along the Hudson Saturday afternoon but was so enjoying myself that I just kept walking and walking. Oh, make no mistake it was cold and windy by the river and I was freezing my patootie off. Despite that it was a lovely day for a walk.
I'm glad I kept walking because just north of the George Washington Bridge, where the trail heads up away from the river, there's a tiny cove. In that cove were three shipwrecked boats frozen in the ice. The boat with the graffiti is 50-60 feet long. My guess is the boats broke away from the marina at the Hudson end of Dyckman Street. I wonder how long they have been there, and if their owner's know their boats are no longer at the marina?
Speaking of breaking away... Remember that retaining wall in Washington Heights that collapsed in a landslide a couple of years ago? There was a gaping void, parked cars were crushed, and a lane of the Henry Hudson Parkway was closed. Castle Village, the apartment complex where the landslide occurred, is above the shipwreck site. The new wall is almost complete:
hope you're patootie is warming today!
Posted by: Judy | 12 February 2007 at 08:30 AM
a coupla errors in your post "shipwrecked'. the boat with the graffiti is not 50-60 ft. long, it's half that at best and that photo of the wall you snapped is not the section that washed out & clooapsed 2 years ago. nice pix anyway...
Posted by: EJNYC | 12 February 2007 at 07:25 PM
I may have overestimated the length of the boat (probably closer to 40 feet), but that's definitely the wall that collapsed. See previous photos.
Posted by: Joe | 12 February 2007 at 07:42 PM
the boat is probably 20 - 30 ft max. get a clue.
Posted by: gong | 12 February 2007 at 09:41 PM
Have you seen the boat? How do you know it is 20-30 foot max? Each of those letters on the boat is at least a foot wide. There's a couple inches between each letter, making the whole phrase about 15 feet long. Add that to the 15-16 feet of space toward the stern and 8 feet toward the bow and you get about 40 feet in length.
Why are you coming to my site and being disrespectful? There is no need for you to be rude. I don't mind you correcting my overestimation but, you should do so with facts and a supporting argument not an insult.
Posted by: Joe | 12 February 2007 at 09:54 PM
Joe, They're probably visiting from Curbed, like me. :)
Posted by: Jackie | 12 February 2007 at 11:13 PM
I think that that is a J24 sailboat; 24 feet.
Posted by: gThomas | 13 February 2007 at 09:21 AM
Jackie, yes, Curbed has been very, very kind to me! Unfortunately, some of their readers have bad manners. You should have seen the comments I deleted.
gThomas, thanks for the id! Could it be a J/133? 24 feet seems way too short. I've written the manufacturer to see if they can identify it.
Posted by: Joe | 13 February 2007 at 09:56 AM
the J133 is a 600K 45 foot racing boat, I would doubt that the owner of such would leave it in this condition.
Posted by: gThomas | 14 February 2007 at 03:25 PM
heya im kayleigh from ireland nd i wach shipwrecked every sat nd i want leann nd lorenzo 2 win best boy nd girl coz lorenzo is lovly nd leann is just kwl !!!!!!!!!! so cya xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Posted by: kayleigh | 18 February 2007 at 04:38 PM
The J/Boat people got back to me. They don't believe it is any J/Boat model. They thought it might be a Pearson Flyer. The paint pattern looks right but the hull looks different to me.
Posted by: Joe | 21 February 2007 at 11:31 PM