Brigid is currently up the river on the Half Moon

That’s the Hudson River. She is sailing on the replica of the Half Moon, the ship Henry Hudson sailed when he discovered the Hudson River.

The 400th anniversary of the discovery is next year, and aficionado’s of the history have been prepping this past year for the anniversary. Brigid got interested because the Half Moon was a Dutch ship, but Henry Hudson was English. She is toying with the idea of writing a book from the perspective of Henry Hudson’s son, as if it was a log of the voyage and discovery of the river (no such log by his son exists).

So Brigid has been reading about the voyage, as well as studying the boat. Sunday night she went up to Newburgh to serve as a crewperson for the last sailing of the season, as they move the Half Moon from Newburgh to Albany for the winter.

She’s called us three times, and is having a great time.

Here’s the Half Moon, docked in Yonkers on October 18th. Brigid spent that day guiding people around the boat and then overnighted on it.  

 

 

And here are a couple of pictures from September, as the Half Moon sailed up past the Bear Mountain Bridge – we took these from the east shore above the river. Not a big ship at all. Hard to believe they sailed across the Atlantic in ships of that size.

 

 

So Brigid is away three nights, while I hold the fort. Not too tough, since the boys are bigger now then when she went to England years ago (on a couple of occasions) leaving me to cope with them for seven or eight days. Just means I do all the driving around to get them to their social engagements.