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Navy Gray @ The SS Constitution
Gary Tucker
This week we met along Boston Harbor at the Boston Navy Yard for a morning of painting boats and cranes, later a show and tell at Styles..
It's not an easy place to find parking but the views towards Boston, the array of boats and the visiting Spanish tall ship provided a dizzying feast for the senses...
The 4 masted schooner Juan Sedation Elcano is in port read more about her stay in Boston here
I found the crumbling crane interesting and the fog that rolled in later also captured my imagination...The Boston Navy Yard, originally called the Charlestown Navy Yard and later Boston Naval Shipyard, was one of the oldest shipbuilding facilities in the United States Navy. It was established in 1801 as part of the recent establishment of the new U.S. Department of the Navy in 1798. After 175 years of military service, it was decommissioned as a naval installation on 1 July 1974. more on Wikipedia...