Whaler Central - Boston Whaler Boat Information and Photos

Posted by OIA on 09/12/14 - 8:23 PM

I have a friend and his wife from Redondo Beach, CA who will be in NYC Sept 25 - 27. If anyone is up for taking a couple of Left Coasters for a boat ride around the Statue of Liberty. Great couple. You will have a fun time and take a friend . . . . who has a boat in King Harbor (Redondo Beach) and I'm certain will reciprocate when you are in Southern California.

Posted by huckelberry145 on 09/13/14 - 5:47 AM

Garris, OIA is John Mirassou, author of the book 'Only in America'. Just to put it like this, if he were to send someone to the Charleston area, I would be offering to give them a tour of the Charleston harbor. Not just in exchange for a boat ride with him in SoCal if I were to ever make it there, but I would bet the people he sends would be a pleasure to have on my boat as well.

Posted by gchuba on 09/13/14 - 7:02 AM

Huck,
Point taken. My young adult years were in lower Manhattan (Soho and Greenwich Village) without two nickles to rub. We would laugh at folks in line for the $50 boat ride to go once around Lady Liberty with the New Yorker's "... Whadyah crazy! Just take the Ferry, it's dah same thing!...".

However, if I was situated in NYC it would be my pleasure to host a trip (if my boat ever gets wet again). I did a tour of Ellis Island and will never forget it. I saw my mom's side of the families name engraved on the dedicated wall from 1913. I would highly recommend a boat ride up the Hudson to West Point. Close your eyes and imagine "Last of the Mohican's". Even though a "City Boy" for a while, we always referred to upstate New York as going to "God's Country".

Garris

Billy Joel could have just as easily written "...I take a boat ride on the Circle Line... New York state of mind..."

Edited by gchuba on 09/13/14 - 7:06 AM

Posted by huckelberry145 on 09/13/14 - 4:22 PM

Garris, that's cool that you can tour New York harbor and Ellis island and find your family lineage. Life hasn't brought me to the city yet, but I could see y'all calling upstate NY God's country.