I had a private tour of the hull under construction a little over a year ago. The chief architect, Iver Franzen, is a good friend of mine (and will be coming in with the vessel and participating in a discussion panel Sat afternoon). I wish we could attend the ceremonies Saturday but we've got extended family staying here at the compound over the weekend and Mom is in no shape to be trying to get around the waterfront over at SMC.
Word on Air B&B are, those leasing on the island need a fresh tetanus and #8 shade sunglasses.
Its definitely a sketchy neighborhood.
That is way cool....
My marine engineering company donated the effort to get the last Dove USCG certified. Did the stability tests and analyses...the stability booklet etc. As payment for that, we all were granted "VIP" status. That got us invites to private sailing "cruises" on the vessel, with other VIP sponsor members.
Sort of surprised me.
My family connection to the Ark & Dove is somewhat tenuous. A woman, last name of Plummer, either came over with that group or was immediately descended from someone on that voyage. In any, event she married in to the other side of that family root ...one of the Govers that landed in Anne Arundel in 1650 and had massive landholdings/patents in Calvert County, including Dunkirk. The last remaining bit of my family property there is the "Kings Landing" park. I don't know the story of how the rest of the Calvert County property was dispersed over the years; my immediate branch left CC and settled in Waterford VA in the early 1800s.Was always a family story, I imagine lots of New England families have that. Once I dove into the genealogy, and verified out that my great great great grandfather, himself descended from a settler who came over and settled in Lynn in 1633, married a woman descended from John Alden. There's a Wordsworth in the mix too
