Thursday, June 26th, 2008
LCXI
39.226617 -75.037083
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
GC199G1
39° 13.610N
75° 02.254W
It doesn’t take much to get me to Bivalve. I fell in love with this place the first time I was here in 1995 (?). I love it here. My friends from the schooner have all moved on, but I still come here frequently.
On my way out the door early today Gert asked me to drop off five movies at the video store. That was several miles in the wrong direction. Sigh . . .
On the way down here I decided to skip over a couple other caches and head right to this one. Watching the sun rise over the Maurice River sounded like the perfect way to begin today. And what an awesome sight it was!
I made my way to the cache site in no time and found the cache readily. I signed in and took some more photographs. What a gorgeous morning!
On my way out, I stopped at the A.J. Meerwald. She must be in dry dock for the winter. Her masts are on the docks. It was beautiful on the water. Ah, so many good memories have been spent here.
What a way to start this day! (more…)
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Thursday, March 24th, 2005
LCC4
39.232783 -75.0325
The A.J. Meerwald is New Jersey’s official tall ship. She is a restored oyster schooner. I have sailed aboard the Meerwald numerous times. She is used as a floating classroom now and my fourth grade was one of the very first sails that was undertaken when she was re-commissioned. I had the pleasure of attending the official recognition designating her a tall ship as well as serving as a volunteer in the past.
Beetle and I took a spin by Bivalve today to check up on the Meerwald. One of her masts was down being refurbished. All the name plates were off and being worked on off-site. One of the crew was very accomodating and she found a ring with the name of the ship for me to photograph. The Meerwald was docked along the Maurice River which feeds the Delaware. The Meerwald was first commissioned in 1928. Her masts were cut off later as she served as a fire boat. After the oyster industry went belly-up in the 1950s, the Meerwald fell into disrepair. She was rotting and had a massive hole in her when she was purchased for $1.00 several years ago. Through a lot of hard work, volunteering, and some grant money, she was restored to a wonderful condition. Her sails are canvas which is a lot of fun to hoist when wet.
She is 115′ tall, 85′ long, and 23′ wide. Other stats:
Draft - 6′
Beam - 22′3″
Rig height 70′
Freeboard 4′
Sail area - 3562 Sq Ft
Gross Tonnage - 57 tons
Long before the Meerwald had its own web site, I created one about her for the Franklin Institute. I no longer have access to that server, so it isn’t maintained, but it has some interesting information as well as video of some of my former students. The fellowship that produced that project introduced me to some fine teachers from North America. One of them introduced me to caching back in 2001.
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