Mystic Whaler
Originally uploaded by eclectic echoes.
The Amistad Mystic Whaler sailing east up the Long Island Sound off the coast of Niantic… far off the coast of Niantic. This is a 100% crop from the 400mm. I like how it looks through the haze…sort of takes ya back in time…
I love it when the various sail ships are visible through haze, fog or mist on the estuary and on the sound. Away from the traffic and sounds of the go go fast world, seeing a sailing ship from another era emerge through the haze and mist almost makes me feel as if I have been trasported to a different time. A time when the pace was slower.
Originally I thought this was the schooner Mystic Whaler which operates out of Mystic doing daysails and charter sails in the Long Island Sound as well as sailing up and down the Atlantic coast for races and events. The more I looked at the photo though the more I realized that it couldn’t be her. This schooner has raked masts, and the Mystic Whaler doesn’t. Fortunately though I have ID’d the schooner in this photo…it is the Amistad, the recreation of the famous ship. The new Amistad was built here in Mystic at the Seaport and spends almost as much time here as she does in her home port of New Haven. She also regularly visits New London where her namesake was first put to port after being captured in US Waters.
This picture was taken about the time that it returned to Mystic from New Haven.
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[...] I spent an hour or so on one of the beaches down in Waterford the other day (the same place and day that the Mystic Whaler shot was taken). I just watched the sound and the shore birds along some of the rocks and jetties. The funny thing about many of these birds is that they see a place where another bird is “perched” and decide that it’s a nice spot to stop. Not that the rock itself is a nice spot - whether the rock is 20 square feet or a half a square foot - no, they decide to land in the exact couple of inches as one of the other birds. [...]
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