Fun with Numbskull and Saltfly

[Skitterpop]

Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake

You'd be amazed at the stuff that appears and disappears during the Seasons. The HMS Somerset still resides at Peaked Hill. Paul Revere rowed past that ship before his "midnight ride". It was run aground by Truro boys shanghied in Boston during the War of 1812. "You're in the Royal Navy now boys", "The hell we are". The Brits were marched back to Boston at pitchfork point by the Truro hayshakers.
Last season I saw a ship's timber fitted with wooden pegs and bronze spikes. No steel was in it. I thought it was an odd combination of technologies, went back for it but it was gone.
The Vikings visited the outer Cape, I'm waiting for a new hat.

Good stuff Fred!

You would look good in that helmet driving the Race .

[Backbeach Jake]

When my Grandmother was in grade school , there were families living at Long Point. She told me that the parents would row their kids to school in Provincetown every day. Can you imagine? School's in the Fall, Winter and Spring , when the weather isn't exactly balmy . Tough bunch out there. Do the remains of the old railway ( to bring up boats) still exist. It did 20 years ago.

[Flaptail]

Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake

When my Grandmother was in grade school , there were families living at Long Point. She told me that the parents would row their kids to school in Provincetown every day. Can you imagine? School's in the Fall, Winter and Spring , when the weather isn't exactly balmy . Tough bunch out there. Do the remains of the old railway ( to bring up boats) still exist. It did 20 years ago.

Just up inside from Long Point Lighthouse we found a series of pilings that went out into and eventually disapeared into the water on the inside harbor side looking towrds P-Town proper. Also we found another wreck which was obviously an iron hull as you could see the outline of a boat 40 or so feet in length which was sanded in. We also found machinery sticking out of the sand that now that you mention it could have been the machinery to haul boats up a rail system. Saltfly also pointed out the location of a third wreck which is marked by a buoy inside as well.

[Backbeach Jake]

A lot of that machinery was crap that the draggers drug up and dumped out there so they'd never run into it again. There was once a couple of huge radial airplane engines there. Other weird looking stuff too. Capt. Nemo looking gizmos. Those pilings running into the water are indeed the remains of the railway, long gone before you and I were born.

[RoyL]

Great pics Flap