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Posted By: Hal Brown
Date Posted: Jul 9, 2011
Description: All things end, even the good stuff. When it’s over the toys should be properly put away. Before putting the SeaRey away, it had to get back to Florida.
Date Taken: Jul 9, 2011
Place Taken: Western Bay, ME
Owner: Dan Nickens
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Category: 425, Yacht Tending
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Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    During WWII the Bath Iron Works turned out destroyers at the rate of one every 17 days. It’s still building them, but not at the same rate.      Attachments:  

Still Building Ships.jpg
Still Building Ships

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    At low tide the islands grow together. Jeff Becton of Deer Isle told me a story he read as a boy about a tidally submerged island. It was set during cold weather. The clammer pulled his boat up in the mud and set about hunting for clams. He got so busy that he didn’t notice that the tide took his boat away. When he did notice, he had several hours to ponder the cold fate that awaited as the bone chilling waters inexorably surrounded him.      Attachments:  

Island Connection.jpg
Island Connection

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    The tides run deep in Maine. It makes periodic tidal rivers along the coast.      Attachments:  

Tidal Drought.jpg
Tidal Drought

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    Not a healthy, natural SeaRey environment. This one hadn’t moved in a long time.      Attachments:  

Awash in Grass.jpg
Awash in Grass

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    Ipswich is one of the oldest settlements in the U.S. The residents have had time to grow some seriously strange yards.      Attachments:  

Suburban Maze.jpg
Suburban Maze

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    Nice place for an offshore escape. I needed an escape. After days of being holed up in a hotel for bad weather, it was time to head for home.      Attachments:  

Island Cabin.jpg
Island Cabin

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    The good neighborhoods always seem to get a little crowded.      Attachments:  

Island Cabins.jpg
Island Cabins

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    An old Lighthouse with solar power? What will they think of next?      Attachments:  

Channel Marker.jpg
Channel Marker

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    A Hercules and a convoy of gooselets? Who knew there was an air show?      Attachments:  

Mother Goose .jpg
Mother Goose

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    Sailor’s Wharf near the George Washington Bridge seemed like a good place to take a break before shooting down the Hudson. To get there I had to land in New York and taxi to New Jersey.      Attachments:  

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Hudson Haven

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    It’s always a trip going downtown.      Attachments:  

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Passing By Downtown

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    The island is concocted from a little natural rock and a lot of landfill. In 1998 the U.S. Supreme Court decided the natural part belonged to New York. The landfill belongs to New Jersey. Who knew the Supreme’s had such a sense of humor?      Attachments:  

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Welcome Station

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    The New Colossus<br /><br />Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,<br />With conquering limbs astride from land to land;<br />Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand<br />A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame<br />Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name<br />Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand<br />Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command<br />The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.<br />'Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!' cries she<br />With silent lips. 'Give me your tired, your poor,<br />Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,<br />The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.<br />Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,<br />I lift my lamp beside the golden door!'<br /><br />Emma Lazarus, 1883<br />      Attachments:  

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Liberty on Display

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    The rising sea is relentlessly reclaiming formerly secure bunkers. The bunkers were built in the early 1900’s. The line of posts to the right was installed at the beach line in those days (1910). The shoreline has since eroded by about 200’.<br /><br />Sandy Hook has been a geologically dynamic site for some time. This is where the Jersey shore intersects with the ancient (now submerged) valley of the combined Raritan and Hudson Rivers. The generally northward migration of sand along with sediment from the Shrewsbury and Navesink River estuaries made the hook sandy.<br /><br />The military appreciated Sandy Hook’s strategic position for a while. Fort Hancock was built on the Hook in the 19th century after the Spanish American War. In the 1950’s Fort Hancock became the site of nuclear tipped Nike missile batteries. The site was surrendered by the military in 1972 to the National Park Service.<br />      Attachments:  

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Slipping Bunkers

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    Located on the Highlands of Navesink, twin lights showed the way into New York Bay. The lights are located on a geologically suspect area subject to block slumping (no, not blocks of slums, blocks of slump…er, slump blocks). Like a bad serving of Jello, when blocks slump, a large area of land drops seaward. Some blocks have been almost 600’ by 3000’ and dropped 85’.<br /><br />The problem starts because there are deposits of glauconite and clay underlying the sand. All you have to do to get a slump is to build a big building on top of ridge and add water. This typically happens during periods of heavy rain.<br />      Attachments:  

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Double Lights

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    I couldn’t spot any convenient SeaRey access to the National Guard Militia Museum.      Attachments:  

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Weapons Pads

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    If you enjoy socialization in the summer, the Jersey Shore is a happening place.      Attachments:  

Jersey Shore.jpg
Jersey Shore

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    The Cape May airport looked pretty quiet except for the Caribou convention.      Attachments:  

Caribou Collection.jpg
Caribou Collection

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    The Wildwood Naval Air Station Museum was a great after lunch break from a steady diet of SeaRey aviation.      Attachments:  

Naval Collection.jpg
Naval Collection

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    It takes a long and rocky walk to get to the Harbor of Refuge breakwater and light. I just flew over it.      Attachments:  

Point of Light.jpg
Point of Light

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    In Breakwater Harbor there was another rocky walkway. The rock contract must have made some quarry owner happy.      Attachments:  

Point of Light Too.jpg
Point of Light Too

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    What could be more fun than a nice splash and game of miniature golf in between planes and volcanoes? I would have stopped but I didn’t see a Dairy Queen.      Attachments:  

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Planes and Volcanoes

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    Even a big bay can have a quiet day. Some days it is really quiet.      Attachments:  

Calm Day on the Bay.jpg
Calm Day on the Bay

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    What course? I’ll bet someone was cheating.      Attachments:  

Cutting Corners.jpg
Cutting Corners

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    For once I was ahead of schedule. That gave me time to float away some time on the James River before my appointment with Don.      Attachments:  

Lazy on the River.jpg
Lazy on the River

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    Not far from Don’s place was a double bridge, or at least a bridge with double lifts. I don’t know how any boats get by with half the bridge underwater.      Attachments:  

Double Bridge.jpg
Double Bridge

    
  
Don Maxwell - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    That's the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge. A freighter hit it in 1977 and closed it for nearly two years. It's a long way around now, but back then the shortest route around it was about 50 miles. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison_Memorial_Bridge">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison_Memorial_Brid<br>ge</a>     
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    One times the Don Maxwell is not enough.      Attachments:  

DonX3.jpg
DonX3

    
  
Don Maxwell - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    Cool! I've always wanted a triplane, like the Red Baron's.     
  
Jeff Sauers - Jul 10,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    Cool shot! Airplane, reflection, shadow. Very cool shot!     
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    Don shows how a glassy water landing should look.      Attachments:  

Don Sliding On.jpg
Don Sliding On

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    The flight leader was in Launch Ready Status as the straggler mulled about aimlessly on the water.      Attachments:  

Looking Good.jpg
Looking Good

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    Getting on step and looking good doing it was demonstrated by The Professor of SeaRey Studies.      Attachments:  

Getting it on.jpg
Getting it on

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    The old boats looked like they were in really good shape for 1600 era vessels.      Attachments:  

Ancient Fleet.jpg
Ancient Fleet

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    It doesn’t take much of an excuse for SeaReys to get together. In fact, there was no excuse. Good thing no one asked us to make one up!      Attachments:  

A Gathering of Reys.jpg
A Gathering of Reys

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 09,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    Headed for home base as the last light headed west. Unfortunately the light that was left was lightning. We landed under its unwelcome illumination.      Attachments:  

Last Flash.jpg
Last Flash

    
  
Ross Vining - Jul 10,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    Dan<br />Loved your illustrated story - thanks for sharing.<br />     
  
Jeff Sauers - Jul 10,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    Great stuff Dan, as usual. Always entertaining!     
  
Wayne Nagy - Jul 10,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    Thanks for posting these great pictures, Dan. What kind of camera do you use?     
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 11,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    Canon EOS 5 D II with EF 24-105mm, Wayne, only because I had a run in with a really slick NYC salesman.     
  
Frank A. Carr - Jul 11,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    Thanks Dan, great story and photos as per usual.     


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