Onrust’s 2014 June Voyage Director’s Report Symbolic Voyage -Itinerary ( Part I ) After the Mendelsohn Club of Albany’s Spring Concert, Albany’s kick–off event at Chancellor’s Hall, dedicated to the Onrust’s 400th Anniversary, the ship left the Albany Snow Dock on this very symbolic voyage on May 31st 2014. It then sailed from the same waters hugging the lands holding up Fort Nassau, NY’s first fort of 1614, for 124 nautical miles south to New York Bay where the replica’s original counterpart had been built earlier that year, in 1614. Docked in Erie Basin in Red Hook, Brooklyn, the Onrust crew, like Adriaen Block’s men, worked feverishly on the ship for several days under the command of captain Mike Abegg, preparing rigging and sails and making adjustments to equipment on and below deck. From Upper New York Bay, the ship passed the Verrazano Narrows into Lower New York Bay, continued to Sandy Hook Bay and sailed through the Narrows to Highlands, New Jersey. It arrived at Bahrs on June 5th to participate in the much - anticipated commemoration of the 350th Anniversary of the Settlement of Monmouth County in 1664. It sailed up the Navesink River the next day and over the weekend went on various sails and offered public tours at Fair Haven Yacht Works and Marine Park in Red Bank. The warm reception and enthusiasm for the historical yacht were remarkable and almost a thousand people visited the Onrust in that short period of time. Over a hundred people sailed on the ship and many more were able to view the vessel from the shores in Highlands, Bahrs, Fairhaven and Red Bank and the many marinas the ship docked at along the twelve- day journey.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:14:09 +0000
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