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4th of July Boat Parade: 1941

Submitted by microanne on Mon, 01/24/2011 - 9:16am.
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Summer vacation on the Metedeconk River, NJ, always meant a boat parade on the 4th of July. This was taken in 1941, five months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Our lives changed that year. Dad was busy building ships for the U.S. Navy, I went on to college and the young man steering the "Patsy Anne" finished high school and enlisted in the US Maritime Service (Merchant Marine). We married 50 years later and are living happily ever after. View full size.

Summer vacation on the Metedeconk River, NJ, always meant a boat parade on the 4th of July. This was taken in 1941, five months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Our lives changed that year. Dad was busy building ships for the U.S. Navy, I went on to college and the young man steering the "Patsy Anne" finished high school and enlisted in the US Maritime Service (Merchant Marine). We married 50 years later and are living happily ever after. View full size.

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Wrong class!

Submitted by microanne on Tue, 03/01/2011 - 3:09pm.

This was a "Seagull Class" wooden boat, #216, 18 feet long. The next boat Dad built was a Lightning, #1004. At the end of WW2, he designed and built a 40-foot all steel yawl. I'll post it today. Named "Silhouette," it is currently living in Uruguay!

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Patsyanne & Anne

Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 4:03pm.

Two of Harry's beauties!

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Wonderful Photo!

Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 8:44am.

I love the details, not too unlike boating today. Good looking crew, too!

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Fifty years?

Submitted by Olde Buck on Mon, 01/24/2011 - 4:26pm.

Why did the big lug make you wait fifty years before marrying you? (Hahahah! We all know what you mean; you just didn't type it out that way.)

You could call that shot the "Calm Before the Storm."

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Lightning Strikes Twice

Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Mon, 01/24/2011 - 3:24pm.

International Lightning Class was once (and may still be) the most popular one design in the world. I spent a couple of summers teaching sailing at a Maine resort in wood Lightnings of this vintage in the mid 1980s. Within a few years they were left to rot in the woods and had been replaced with fiberglass boats.

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