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June, 2005 • MarineNews 45 Circle 283 on Reader Service Card Circle 278 on Reader Service Card Circle 260 on Reader Service Card Wagner Marine Technologies Phone 604.940.4545 - Fax 604.940.4566 Email: inquiries@summerequipment.com www.wagnersteering.com Engineered Marine Steering Solutions The Source for Wholesale Marine Supplies Phone: (732) 238-9434 Fax: (732) 238-8036 Toll Free: (800) 541-0577 South River, New Jersey VikingTerminal.Com y Sales@VikingTerminal.com something not too distant from that may be shaping-up in Kingston, New York, where there are perhaps fewer yuppies and more of a population with both his- torical and personal connections to the water. A new undertaking has been quiet- ly underway, involving the acquisition of the old Cornell tugboat company build- ing on Rondout Creek, the purchase of local scrapyards for conversion, and the old town dock to continue serving as a public amenity for a renewed Kingston waterfront. The new development would incorporate the resources and much of the vision of Steve Trueman's North River Tugboat Museum, with which the Harvey and the presence of North River Historical Ship Society members would be incorporated. Whether this will lead to Mr. True- man's "Mystic Seaport of Iron" reported here last year remains to be seen, but the early indicators are promising. A big maritime festival is scheduled at Kingston for August 19 and 20th, at which antique tugs such as the Pegasus, Chancellor, Urger, and others are expect- ed to join the festivities, and the boda- cious development plans revealed in detail. Meanwhile, back downstate, New York City still nurses the black eye it received when Bayonne, that small New Jersey community barely visible from Manhattan's residential towers, got the cruise ship terminal. And now Kingston, even further from the center of Manhat- tan's universe, gets the history center and all its traffic? As much as the Hudson River Park has been criticized by restoration-minded motorheads, it is not, in John Krevey's view, entirely a villain. "They have more problems than people realize," he tells us, HISTORY THE YEARBOOK JUNEMN2005 6(41-48).qxd 5/26/2005 7:13 AM Page 45
