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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Jul 1, 2011
Description:
The SeaRey was squeezed in betweens the jets and helicopters while waiting on a “working” assignment. The idea was to meet up with the yacht on the Hudson River off Manhattan. The problem was finding a parking place in the City to pick up prospective passengers. The little helicopter N7UM ('yum yum') was there to help scout out the situation.
Date Taken:
Jul 1, 2011
Place Taken:
Linden, NJ
Owner:
Dan Nickens
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425, Yacht Tending
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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One way to look for a SeaRey parking space is by helicopter. The boat was parked in NYC. We took a tour in the helicopter to see if it was feasible to take the SeaRey downtown.<br /><br />It wasn’t. First there was a practical issue: boat wake in the Hudson. All I can say is that Capt. Sullenberger was lucky to land there in January. In June, the river has waves big enough to swamp a titanic SeaRey.<br /><br />Second, the bureaucrats weren’t inviting. There was no legal landing on the NJ side since there was no seaplane base. I could legally land on the NY side, but when the Port Authority was contacted we got another practical problem: “Sure, you can land on the Hudson, but if you do the police will have to investigate.”<br /><br />“Why?”<br /><br />“Because that’s what we do.”<br /><br />There is a private seaplane base downtown on the East River but they didn’t want visitors either.<br />
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SeaRey Parking Permited
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Matt Tucciarone - Jul 02,2011
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Dan,<br />Thanks for doing all the research on landing in the Hudson and East River. I was just going to land there. Glad I didn't.
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Dan Nickens - Jul 02,2011
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Oh you haven't heard the end of it yet, Matt!
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Eric Batterman - Jul 02,2011
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Matt, Please keep in mind that Dan was underestimating the waves.
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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Another practical difficulty: there didn’t look to be much room for SeaReys on the floating parking lot anyway.
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Congested Parking
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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No parking here either. I suppose I could have taken a train.
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Yankee Stadium
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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In New Jersey there is no free parking for seaplanes unless a permit has been issued. Liberty and justice? Not for all.
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Freedom Parking
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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Derelict boats lined the industrial shoreline of Arthur Kill between New Jersey and Staten Island. The Rossville Boatyard was once an approved location for the abandonment of old vessels. The vessels were left to rot and rust away.
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Ghostly Ships
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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The boat may have been partially submerged for decades, but a life boat remains on station for its ghost crew.
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Safety First
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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An entire flotilla rests on the bottom in good formation.
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Ghost Fleet
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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The Verrazano Narrows Bridge is built on a terminal moraine associated with the Wisconsin Stage glaciations (about 18,000 years ago). When the great sheet of ice reached the site and dumped its load of rock, the Hudson River had probably been diverted across central New Jersey. Or that’s the theory. Some folks just don’t believe in climate change.
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Crossing the Hudson
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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Another long beach on Long Island.
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Long Beach
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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Just a simple get-a-way cottage for Buffy and Arthur in the Hamptons.
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Beach Cottage
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Wayne Nagy - Jul 02,2011
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This makes some of the homes on Palm Beach LOOK like cottages!!
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Troy iRMT Heavy Maint. Enriquez - Jul 03,2011
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Roger that Wayne.<br />what a vulgar display of wealth. 
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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It’s not on the beach, but this place has nice foliage.
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Back Bay Cottage
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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The eastern tip of Long Island was rumored to have been the site of experiments with time travel (according to the novel, “The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time”). It’s not fiction. You can travel through a lot time in a SeaRey when the wind is blowing.
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End of the Island
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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Giant Yellow Rubber Dog Invades Mantauk! SeaRey pilot shocked! More tonight at 11….
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Monster at Montauk
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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A light at the end of the island: authorized by George Washington and completed in 1796. Its service has spanned more than 200 years. It probably doesn’t have to depend on social security for its retirement.
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Point Light
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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An inviting shallow spot suitable for SeaRey investigation? Of course.
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SeaRey Shallows
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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A nice resting place for a long flying ‘Rey.
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Beach Spotting
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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Not everyone had a good day at the beach. The tide must have been higher, but not high enough.
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Bad Beach Day
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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This bit of real estate has been owned for 400 years by the Gardiners family through a grant from the English Crown (King Charles I, 1639). Of course Lion Gardiner also had to pay the natives: one large black dog, some powder and shot, and a few Dutch blankets.<br /><br />(Must have been a really good dog.)<br /><br />Captain Kidd visited the island and buried treasure on it. Unfortunately he had to dig it up for evidence as part of his trial in Boston.<br />
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Garden Spot
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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Another forgotten relict sinking into the Sound. Built during the Spanish American War, Fort Tyler lasted until taken out by shifting sands in 1921.
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Sinking Relict
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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Such an innocent looking lighthouse…it’s almost church like. It is on the tip of one of the potentially dangerous places in the United States.
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Tip of Malignancy
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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Plum Island is the site of a unique governmental research facility: the Plum Island Animal Disease Center. Sorta like a CDC for farm animals. Right.<br /><br />Since 1954 it has been protecting the nation’s livestock against all kinds of virulent disease through research. Only during the Cold War there was also research into biological warfare. Not now.<br /><br />Right.<br /><br />It was originally purchased by the Army Chemical Corps. A couple of years later it was transferred to the federal agricultural guys. Surely.<br /><br />Then in 2002 the facility was transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Homeland inSecurity. They know herds, okay?<br /><br />In 2008 a strange creature washed ashore near Montauk. Based on currents, it was believed to have originated from Plum Island. The strangely deformed quadruped was dubbed the “Montauk Monster.”<br /><br />The facility has a policy: shoot any wild mammal it spots. No way was I gonna check out their beach. I may be wild, but I’m not crazy.<br />
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Farm Research
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Frank A. Carr - Jul 02,2011
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For anyone who likes fiction, there's a Nelson DeMille book called 'Plum Island'.
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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Covered with vegetation and crumbling into the sea are bastions of war. Fort Terry occupied Plum Island before the DHiS. It was deactivated after WWII. Supposedly.
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Crumbling Fortification
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2011
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The guns are gone from Fort Michie (active from the Spanish American War to the end of WWII). It is now a bird bath…er, bird sanctuary and home to an estimated 10,000 nesting terns.
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Missing Guns
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Charles Pickett - Jul 02,2011
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Dan <br />Are you coming to the island ACK or MVY let me know or stop by TAN
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Dan Nickens - Jul 02,2011
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Sometime next week I'm supposed to pick up the Silver Ghost from Beverly, Long Island, Charlie. Maybe we can go to Persey's?
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