Tenacious is being guided dockside with the help of a Bolger
Diablo skiff run by Niel Guise.
John Ransom is at the tiller of the big sharpie; and three Sound School
students,
Steve Ferriuolo, Jessina Motos, and Leslie Santoro are tending lines.
The picture of the large sharpie is interesting a few ways. One is that every boat in the picture (and I waited a long time to get that picture) is a Sound School-built boat: the dories, the small sharpie skiffs, the Brockway skiffs and the Diablo, a Bolger skiff. As such the photo is one that gets to the heart of the school's way of doing things, very much in sympathy with John Gardner's view of the dimensions of small traditional craft.
I think this stuff important because, as I see it, this is the only public school in the country that uses traditional small craft, that sees our kind of boats as educationally valuable. There should be more of this. These sorts of boats are not expensive and give a lot for each dollar spent.