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Maritime Events Calendar
ONGOING "The Tall Ships" Atlantic Challenge 2009 Through 16 August. Sponsored by the American Sail Training Association, traditional sailing ships will travel more than 7,000 nautical miles visitng the ports of Vigo, Spain; Teneife, Canary Islands; Bermuda; Charleston, SC; Boston, MA; Halifax, NS, Canada; and Belfast, Ireland. www.sailtraining.org Jamestown & Bermuda: Virginia Company Colonies through 15 October Jamestown Settlement, VA. The shared history between England's first two permanent colonies in the New World are explored on this occassion of Bermuda's 400th anniversary. A British presence was established in Bermuda in 1609 when the Sea Venture, the flagship of a fleet en route to Jamestown, VA, founded two years earlier, was shipwrecked. The exhibition features artifacts from the Sea Venture underwater archeological site, and illuminates Bermuda's unique character: strategic location and historic stone forts; extraordinary importance of sports and recreation; and land and seascapes immortalized by internationally renowned artists, leading to Bermuda's rise in the 20th century as a travel destination. http://historyisfun.org/ From Pursuit to Preservation: The History of Human Interaction with Whales Opening 4 July New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA. Exploring the human facination with whales and the history of whaling in New Bedford in a global context. www.whalingmuseum.org "The John J. Harvey Fireboat" 9 July aboard the Waterfront Museum docked at Pier 44 in Red Hook, Brooklyn presented by Huntley Gill and the Fireboat Crew. Discover a fireboat that pumped water to firefighters for 80 hours at the World Trade Center during and after Sept. 11, and became the focus of a children's book. For more info see: www.fireboat.org Part of the "Vessels & Profiles of the Quadricentennial" - a 10 week Thursday Night Speaker Series celebrating the HUDSON/FULTON/CHAMPLAIN QUADRICENTENNIAL and the "WOW - Working on Water" traveling exhibition of historic vessels. www.waterfrontmuseum.org/speaker.htm Maps Myths and Narratives: Cartography of the Far North The International Conference on the History of Cartography 12-17 July Copenhagen, Denmark. For information email: ichc2009@bpd.dk or visit www.ichc2009.dk (Call for Papers dealine is 1 October 2008) "Henry Hudson and his River" 16 July aboard the Waterfront Museum docked at Pier 44 in Red Hook, Brooklyn presented by Jack Putnam, South Street Seaport Museum. Relive Henry's third voyage, and the four centuries of river history that followed. Part of the "Vessels & Profiles of the Quadricentennial" - a 10 week Thursday Night Speaker Series celebrating the HUDSON/FULTON/CHAMPLAIN QUADRICENTENNIAL and the "WOW - Working on Water" traveling exhibition of historic vessels. www.waterfrontmuseum.org/speaker.htm French and Indian War Re-enactment and Colonial Trade Fair 18-19 July Lighthouse Point, Ogdensburg NY. Founders Day Weekend offers activities through the day that include talks on fort archaeology, local and native history, a colonial balladeer, fife & drum corps, and more. Harbor Voices with Terry Walton. 22 July, 6:30 PM NMHS Program, Hendrick Hudson Free Library, Montrose, NY Harbor Voices celebrates New York's working harbor within lively recent memory-the people, places, and vessels that make the city work. It includes behind-the-scenes stories of tug skippers, little-known islands, arch-windowed waterfront buildings, and more as interconnections to earlier times. Book signing. For information call NMHS at 914-737-7878. ...more "Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Launching and Restoration of the historic Hudson Sloop Clearwater " 23 July aboard the Waterfront Museum docked at Pier 44 in Red Hook, Brooklyn, presented by Captain Samantha Heyman and Captain/Shipwright Nicholas Rogers. For more info see: www.clearwater.org Part of the "Vessels & Profiles of the Quadricentennial" - a 10 week Thursday Night Speaker Series celebrating the HUDSON/FULTON/CHAMPLAIN QUADRICENTENNIAL and the "WOW - Working on Water" traveling exhibition of historic vessels. www.waterfrontmuseum.org/speaker.htm 85th Annual Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival 24 July -2 August Grand Haven, MI www.coastguardfest.org "Plans for Atlantic Basin and the Oil Tanker "Mary A. Whalen" 30 July PortSide's director Carolina Salguero and designer Tim Ventimiglia, will recount the amazing history of a 1930's coastal tanker and outline their vision for the ship as a platform for educational programming, exhibits and events and for the maritime hub in Atlantic Basin that will be her home. For more info see: www.portsidenewyork.org Part of the "Vessels & Profiles of the Quadricentennial" - a 10 week Thursday Night Speaker Series celebrating the HUDSON/FULTON/CHAMPLAIN QUADRICENTENNIAL and the "WOW - Working on Water" traveling exhibition of historic vessels. www.waterfrontmuseum.org/speaker.htm 45th Annual Antique Boat Show and Auction 31 July - 2 August, Clayton, NY, Hosted by the Antique Boat Museum and celebrating boats built in the 1000 Islands. Includes marketplace, exhibtions, forums, auction, Grand Parade of Boats and Awards Ceremony. Updates and rregistration available at http://www.abm.org Boothbay Boat Builders Festival 2 August East Boothbay, ME. Sponsored by the Boothbay Region Land Trust www.bbrlt.org/bbrlt_boatbuilders.html Mermaid Ball 7 August National Marine Life Center, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay, MA. All event proceeds benefit the marine animal rehabilitation and science education programs at the National Marine Life Center. For more information call 508-743-9888. www.mermaidball@nmlc.org "NY 400 Holland on the Hudson - The United States & The Netherlands: Two Countries - One Spirit, United by Values, History and a Vision of the future" 13 August aboard the Waterfront Museum docked at Pier 44 in Red Hook, Brooklyn, presented by Arjan Braamskamp, Economic Officer NY400-Maritime Events - Netherlands Consulate General in New York. Part of the "Vessels & Profiles of the Quadricentennial" - a 10 week Thursday Night Speaker Series celebrating the HUDSON/FULTON/CHAMPLAIN QUADRICENTENNIAL and the "WOW - Working on Water" traveling exhibition of historic vessels. www.waterfrontmuseum.org/speaker.htm Tour the USS Monitor Center at the Mariner's Museum 15 August Newport News, VA. Enjoy a special, behind-the -scene look at the USS Monitor Conservation area. Captain Andy Jampoler, USN (Ret.), author of "The Last Lincoln Conspirator" and other books, will entertain bus riders with true stories of maritime adventure! Highlights of the day include EXCLUSIVE guided tours of the USS Monitor Center and USS Monitor Conservation Area! Sponsored by the Naval Historical Society For reservations, contact Kirsten Arnold at klarnold@navyhistory.org or 202-678-4333. 12th North Atlantic Fisheries Conference: Fisheries Management in a Historical Perspective 19-22 August, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. Visit the North Atlantic Fisheries Assocaition web site for more information at www.hull.ac.uk/nafha/ "My River Chronicles - Rediscovering America on the Hudson" 20 August aboard the Waterfront Museum docked at Pier 44 in Red Hook, Brooklyn, presented by Jessica DuLong. Join fireboat engineer and author, Jessica DuLong as she shares stories from four centuries of Hudson River history. For more info see: www.jessicadulong.com. Part of the "Vessels & Profiles of the Quadricentennial" - a 10 week Thursday Night Speaker Series celebrating the HUDSON/FULTON/CHAMPLAIN QUADRICENTENNIAL and the "WOW - Working on Water" traveling exhibition of historic vessels. www.waterfrontmuseum.org/speaker.htm "Restoration and Refit of the 102-year old Tugboat Pegasus" 27 August aboard the Waterfront Museum docked at Pier 44 in Red Hook, Brooklyn, presented by Captain Pamela Hepburn of the The Tugboat Pegasus Preservation Project. For more info see: www.tugpegasus.org Part of the "Vessels & Profiles of the Quadricentennial" - a 10 week Thursday Night Speaker Series celebrating the HUDSON/FULTON/CHAMPLAIN QUADRICENTENNIAL and the "WOW - Working on Water" traveling exhibition of historic vessels. www.waterfrontmuseum.org/speaker.htm 30th Annual Classic Yacht Regatta 4-6 September Museum of Yachting, Newport, RI. This year's regatta will be the convergence of three events: the start of Six Meter Worlds, the New England Huckins rendezvous, and the 30th Annual Classic Yacht Regatta (CYR).www.moy.org 32nd Victoria Real Estate Board & Black Press Annual Classic Boat Festival 4 -6 September Victoria, BC, Canada. A Spectacular display of our maritime heritiage featuring well-maintained vessels of traditiona construction built prior a classic design. For information and registration forms email: classicboat@vreb.org. www.classicboatfestival.ca 33rd Annual Wooden Boat Festival 11-13 September Port Townsend, WA. The premiere wooden boat gathering in North America, Port Townsend's Wooden Boat Festival is also the most educational and beautifully located wooden boat event in the world. Featuring 200 wooden vessels, a who's who of wooden boat experts and thousands of wooden boat enthusiasts, there's something to do, someone to meet or a boat to board at every turn. Expanded a little each year, the festival honors its traditions while inviting energetic debate about the latest innovation. www.woodenboat.org/festival Michigan Schooner Festival 11-13 September Traverse City, MI Sponsored by the Maritime Heritage Alliance. www.michiganschoonerfestival.org Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York, with Thomas M. Truxes 12 September, 10:30 AM-NMHS Program. Hendrick Hudson Free Library, Montrose, NY. Uncovering the story of New York City's cohesive, canny merchant/mariner community of lower Manhattan that made its fortune engaging in trade with the enemy before and during the French and Indian War, historian Thomas M. Truxes brings eighteenth-century New York and the Atlantic world to life through fast-moving events and unforgettable characters. Book signing. For more information, contact NMHS at 914-737-7878. Clipper Round the World Yacht Race starts 13 September Umber, UK. Ten identical, 68-foot racing yachts competing around the world, each of them sponsored by a city, state or country. The only difference is the crew - how hard they work is the difference between winners and losers. For news updatres or to track the race online, visit www.clipperroundtheworld.com Historic Naval Ships Association Annual Conference: Back to Basics 21-23 September Mobile, AL. www.hnsa.org/conf2009.htm Archaeology Weekend 26-27 September Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, VT. Presentations on Lake Champlain shipwrecks including early steamboats, gunboats and canal boats. Saturday afternoon activities includes an on-water tour of shipwrecks. Weekend features special demonstrations, lectures and films. www.lcmm.org National Maritime Historical Society New York Awards Dinner, 14 October New York Yacht Club, NYC. This fall NMHS is honoring media innovator, entrepreneur, and world-renowned yachtsman, Ted Turner and the heroic lifesaving efforts of the "Miracle on the Hudson" ferryboat captains who rescued the passengers and crew of US Airways Flight 1549 that made the emergency landing in the Hudson River in brutally cold weather this past January. ...more SNAME Annual Meeting and Expo 21-23 October Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI The Society of Naval Architects & Marine Engineers Annual Meeting and Expo is a professional meeting that includes all of the diverse technical interests and professional specialties in naval architecture, marine engineering and marine sciences. For more infomraiton, visit www.snameexpo.com Maritime Conference, Massachusetts Maritime Academy 23-25 October Buzzards Bay, MA. General inquires: nautilus@maritime.edu. Web site: www.maritime.edu
Historic Ships II: The Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) Conference 19-20 November London, UK. International conference covering historic ships, and ship building, exploring technical issues involved in the preservation, restoration and replication of historic vessels, including large passenger ships, warships, and coastal and inland craft. The conference will be of interest and value to members of the many organizations world-wide and others who are involved or interested in the preservation of these ships for the benefit of future generations. http://www.rina.org.uk/historicships2009.html. "Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture", Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY. NMHS Field Trip 14 November. The year 2009 marks the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage to the New World and journey up the Hudson River. The Hudson River Museum is celebrating with the exhibition "Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture." The exhibition explores the Dutch legacy of a liberal, capitalist, and multicultural environment that permeated the colony of New Netherland and still characterizes New York today.
DECEMBER 2009 When Fortune Frowns, with William H. White 5 December, 10:30 AM Courtlandt Yacht Club, Montrose, NY. Presentation & NMHS Holiday Potluck. When Fortune Frowns is the story of England's efforts to capture and hang the Bounty mutineers who chose to remain in Tahiti after Fletcher Christian sailed off to Pitcairn Island, their search for Bounty and the eight men who accompanied Christian, and the perilous journey back to England. Book signing. For more information, contact NMHS at 914-7373-7878.
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