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Volunteer!![]() Come join! Get out on the water and join a cheerful horde doing boat work! We can also use self-directed individuals who wish to work on program development. Professionals with experience in historical research, grant-writing, fundraising, event planning, PR and graphic design, and youth programs are particularly desirable, but we can certainly use gal/guy Friday type help! We could use IT support too! Folks of all ages and skill and fitness levels can help. We have something for everyone. When n
Where: We request that
shipwork volunteers chip in at least four hours during a weekend volunteer
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Special thanks to the
following: Thanks for research by Captain Dick Forster, Ed Drury, Thomas Rinaldi (who told us about the Supreme Court case involving The Whalen) and thanks to the folks at K-SEA Transportation, especially Rick Falcinelli, for history and documents, free towing, generous advice and donations. K-SEA, under the name Eklof, was the last company to run The Whalen as a tanker. To Jan Andrusky, Dispatcher at Weeks Marine, thanks for great networking and connecting us to the right people again and again. Thanks too for special services provided by our contractors and suppliers: Charles Deroko, Surveyor; the pump out folks at Clean Water of New York; Independent Testing; John Tretout of Amorica Paint. Thanks much to Bernie Mellies, the marine engineer who drew up the spudwell plan pro bono. We send heartfelt good wishes to Bernie who was seriously injured during a fall on the job 9/9/09. His daughter Sarah, a medical student, is blogging his recovery process here. Thank you American Stevedoring, Inc. for providing us a free home, electricity and labor for over two years and for making the opera event of 2007 a spectacular success. Thanks to GMD Shipyard who provided us a free home during the winter months of 2008! Pier D is a great sunny berth and we miss it! Thanks to our supportive friends at Hughes Marine and Reinauer Transportation in Erie Basin who were so patient over eighteen months while we considered buying the boat, looked for a berth, insurance and a shipyard. They could have sent The Whalen to the scrapyard; but they gave us the time to find a way to save her. Thanks to them too for advice, material support and equipment storage, especially Bob Hughes, Brian Hughes, Phil Marion and Tommy George. Thanks to our friends and volunteers who helped, and continue helping, at critical points: the three mighty scrubbers Patti Kelly, Jayme Keenan, and Debbie Romano; muckmaid Erica Reynolds, Richard Brandt, Gary Baum and Amy Sisti, Captain Tom Teague, Captain Mark McDonnell, Julie Nadel of North River Historic Ships, Huntley Gill of the Fireboat Harvey. Thanks for abundant advice and material from both Captain Pam Hepburn of the Tug Pegasus Preservation Project and David Sharps from Red Hook's own Waterfront Museum and Showboat Barge. And thanks to all of you who have sent historic photos of the Whalen at work: Steve Cryan; Barry Masterson; Bob Mattson; Dave Boone, and for newer photos and video thanks to Helen Tschudi, Blake McDowell, Jenny Kane, Bernie Ente, Frank Lynch. Thanks to Frank Hanavan for a charming painting of the Whalen based on a Masterson photo. Thanks to Richard Fleming for sound recordings and two great blog posts about us, and to Ian Cheney for video work. Thanks to David Bianciardi and Kyle Chepulis for top notch video and lighting installations in 2007 and 2009. Thanks to the Red Hook businesses who regularly support us: Atlantis, LeNell's, Liberty Sunset Garden Center, Tini Winebar, home/made, Steve's Key Lime Pie. And thanks to our dozens of volunteers! Your enthusiasm keeps us inspired. Your work keeps us advancing the ball! |
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