Riding the ferry from Governors Island back to Manhattan yesterday I spotted a boat that I have not seen before in these waters: a black-hulled schooner flying the Danish flag. Turns out it’s the Opal. This wooden schooner was built in 1951 as a Baltic fishing schooner. Her crew seems to be a few twenty-somethings (of whom I am not at all jealous, nope, not me, not jealous even a tiny bit) who have recently arrived in New York from the Caribbean via Norfolk, Virginia.
Here are a few shots of them heading up the East River.
Click here for lots of pictures of the boat in exotic locales and shots from below deck. (If this site is to be believed, Opal is for sale.)
Here is the schooner Opal‘s own site in English (thanks, Google Translate) and in the original Danish.
thanks for the ID. i saw them yesterday . . . and couldn’t quite make out the name. cheers . . . puffinites
[...] VCB‘s decorated rowing gig Bird (more on this later) in the foreground and Danish schooner Opal in the [...]
Look at all the pics! I wouldn’t mind being the guy who supplies them with varnish.
Seriously!