There are a hearty few recreational boaters around here, including the roughly 100 members of the 100-year-old Robbins Reef Yacht Club in Bayonne, directly across the river from a freighter unloading station.
After getting a call from boaters around 1 p.m. Saturday, officials spotted the whale thrashing in the water, said Justin Viezbicke, California Stranding Network coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The price increase could damage long-established boaters' communities all around London, claim those opposing the rise.
First the group appeared in full barbershop-quartet garb to open its set with a few a cappella bars of its hit "Beverly Hills". Then, as the members changed out of their striped jackets and boater hats, Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" played over the sound system.
And for a traveler seeking a sense of place, there is little to compare with the sensation of drifting through the same waters as Renaissance princes, past 17th-century palazzi with mollusks embedded along the waterline, while a parade of delivery boats putt by and gondoliers shout "Oye!" as they approach a blind turn to warn other boaters they're tilting around the corner.
During performances he sometimes tossed around a honey-colored boater from the venerable menswear store F. R. Tripler, which stood for decades on Madison Avenue.
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Boaters are free to sail around the islands, of course, and depending on the season, those who stop to fish may be rewarded with fluke, flounder, porgies, bluefish, blackfish, striped bass or weakfish.
And there's something charming about watching Roger "the Bastard" wander around in his tattered straw boater, fish-out-of-water as he effs and mutters "bollocks" at the swirling array of fruit and vegetables.
Hundreds of fashionable spectators — men in straw boaters, women in riding breeches — milled around the large sand obstacle course, where a jumping competition was under way.
The Nelson has always been a meeting point for boaters with stories of canal trips around England, and has been for 300 years.
