Over the last year or so it seems like all we have heard about is how you can get anything you want delivered to your door. Online shopping items, food from a national chain or a local restaurant and of course don t forget about your groceries. UPS, FedEx, the USPS and Amazon all making sure we get what we need. All that deliverability maybe why I found the story of the Schooner Apollonia so intriguing. I think you will too.
The Schooner Apollonia is a 64 foot steel hulled schooner (sail boat) that is running shipments up and down the Hudson River from Hudson to New York City and back. They announced this week that they are on their first voyage of 2021 which left from Hudson New York this week (May 16, 2021) and will be making stops in Poughkeepsie, Beacon, Ossining and Brooklyn to drop a variety of products that local business people have chosen to ship via wind power.
Hudson Valley Schooner Ships Craft Beer Ingredients on the Hudson
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Hudson Valley Schooner Ships Craft Beer Ingredients on the Hudson
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Fri Oct 20 2006 at 23:18:52
It’s 1534, and Jacques Cartier is on his first voyage. He has seen barren, forbidding land, shot thousands of strange birds, discovered the Gulf of St Lawrence, and yet, he has much to learn.
July 7th. Cartier approaches the Bay of Chaleur. Without warning, his ship is swarmed with 50 canoes full of “fierce, warlike” peoples waving sticks menacingly. Panicked, Cartier ordered that a cannon be fired over their heads. The canoes left in a hurry. Thankful for his victory, Cartier hoped this would be the last he’d see of the ferocious natives.
But it was not to be. The next day, 300 natives returned. After Cartier’s initial alarm, it was soon realized that the reason they had been waving stick topped with beaver pelts at him was not to challenge him, but to trade. Relieved, he began to trade the fur for beads and knives. He later recorded that they had “bargained away all they had” for the tools the French offered.