It is an ideal spot for lingering and hand-holding and people-watching -- especially for gazing at the Sunday-afternoon sailors clattering under the bridge in their rowboats.
They can fish from their rowboats in Willow Lake, follow miles of trails among the development's 2,000 acres of conservancy open space and enjoy preferred status in Willowsford's community-supported agriculture (CSA) program.
On Lake Minnetonka in Mound, Minn., at an annual summer Sunday "Galilean service," members of St. John's Lutheran Church gather to pray in a cluster of their speedboats, rowboats and pontoons.
Mr. Washington and Mr. Turnage liberated themselves during the war, stealing away from their masters by rowboat, at great risk.
For four years, Ms. Gilbert and her colleagues at East River CREW -- Community Recreation and Education on the Water -- have been hunting for a plot of land on the Upper East Side to park their little red rowboat.
When they returned, they found that the waters had dug a moat around their house, destroyed their car and washed away their sailboat, paddleboat and rowboat, and a gardening shed full of equipment.
Her husband, Adam, evacuated in a rowboat with their cat and two dogs.
Their dock, where the gondola will be parked, extends from their lawn and holds a rowboat, a Sunfish sailboat and a pedal boat.
Since 1992, under a free program run by Floating the Apple, a nonprofit group, New York City students (some as young as elementary school age) have spent their winters building Whitehall gigs, a rowboat and sailboat hybrid from the 19th century.
One afternoon, they rent a boat, a small plastic rowboat, and follow the coastline near their hotel, along with the trinket venders who peddle their wares from beach to beach, travelling upright on surfboards or in very shallow-bottomed boats, like tightrope walkers or the ghosts of drowned sailors.
