KINGSTON, N.Y. The Hudson River Maritime Museum said three recent floods since December have caused an estimated $30,000 in damage to its Wooden Boat School. Lisa Cline, the museum’s executive director, said the Wooden Boat School last flooded on Jan. 13. This comes on the heels of floods on Jan. 10 and on Dec. […]
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KINGSTON, New York — Behind the diesel-powered Rip Van Winkle party boat, across from Mathilda, the decommissioned 19th-century tugboat, and about 1,000 yards upriver from the rusted husk of a retired New York City hospital barge named the Lila Acheson Wallace, you will find the Solaris, pitching softly on the placid Rondout Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River. It’s an elegant boat, white and cream-colored with wooden accents, its spotless 45-foot hull a stark contrast to some of the older ve