The party includes live music by Fort Knox Five, Benjy Ferree, Rob Myers, Furniteur, Sitali + Juju, Super Silver Haze, Warm Sun, Boat Burning, Elmapi, Small Doses and the ALB All-Stars, plus an art installation by Leigh-Ann Friedel, screen-printing demos, food and drinks.
IN THE bright midday sun, boats idle as fishermen unload the day's haul.
We broke out the Honey Nut Cheerios, pulled the bed over to the balcony, and had a little picnic as we watched the rising sun illuminate boat traffic on the river below.
Father and son have cast their line from the bank, and contained in that marvellous arc are the sun, a boat, the water, the distant landscape and Klee's own signature, like a tiny insect alighting on the page, with the lugubrious fish hanging dumb-mouthed below.
Using just the sun, the boat can reach speeds of 30knots (35mph), a decent clip for a luxury speedboat.
But soon after, the weather became overcast, and after five days of no visible sun the boat's solar-powered batteries had drained.
Why can't we sail to the sun "in boats"?
Sun-bleached boat sheds are built into the honeycomb rock, with long slats sloping down to the water so the fishermen can easily push their way out for the early morning catch.
Blessed with an enchanted view of the sun-bleached boats in Long Island Sound, the school is perched on an island that looks more like Cape Cod than the Bronx.
You came for the same reason that people pile into small, sun-baked boats off the coast of Baja California every spring to see the blue whales that pass through the Sea of Cortez: to spy for yourself a rare colossus that's impossible to forget once you've seen it in the flesh.
Manet painted his most luminous plein-air picture, Boating (1874), which was set in Le Petit Gennevilliers and depicted two figures seated in the sun in a boat.
