[Alberg30] Beautiful Scenic Aromatic New York City

[Robert Kirk]

Brian...

>Robert Kirk writes:
>Which reminded me of sailing in that lovely area as a youngster.
>Presumably, Brian likes the smell of glue.
>Ah, There's nothing like the smell of fresh glue in the morning!
>
>Really now, how long ago where you sailing in the area?

I'm old, but not that old.  Barren Island had become Floyd Bennet by the 
time I came along. I learned about the big dump because my father told the 
garbage tales every time we went sailing by. It was still recent 
history.  Later on we watched them extend land into the Bay to build 
Idlewild (now JFK) cutting off  the short cut to North Channel .

>  ... The whole area is much cleaner now than ever before and YES it is 
> scenic. No, there are no remnants of horses in the area. I use Deadhorse 
> Bay as my hailing port as a conversation starter (almost no one knows 
> where it is).

As a toddler I would look anxiously for a dead horse to float by. Leter, in 
the Navy I flew out of Floyd Bennet a few times - still looked for the 
horses. That area was/is pretty glamorous. We kept our boat at Inwood dock 
on Mott Creek in amongst the oil barges and big gas tanks.  We would cruise 
to the delightful cove at the Lawrence sewage plant. No Y valves in those 
days, I recall. Eventually we moved to the Keystone Yacht Club in Woodmere 
and left beautiful Jamaica Bay for clamdigger's heaven. Couldn't sail there 
very well but great for power gunkholing.

>  It is a marvelous sailing area with consistent winds (even in the dead 
> of summer).

When you were young, the winds are always consistent, and the weather 
beautiful.  Glad it's still that way.

>... By the way, if you really sailed in my area way back when, might you 
>have any really old charts of the area laying around that you want to get 
>rid of before they turn to dust?

I was Midshipman Navigator on a cruise during college, and got to keep the 
duplicate set of charts the destroyer was issued for the cruise; a complete 
set for the East coast from Montreal to Florida (We went to Montreal). I 
kept them around for years at my parents on LI till my mother pitched them. 
Other kids lost their comic book and baseball card collections that way, I 
guess.

Thanks for the memories.

Cheers,
Bob

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