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Gothamist - “Boat Rides on the Gowanus, If You Dare…”

thefreeseas — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:47:24 +0000

(photo: elizabeth weinberg)

Surf Dory

thefreeseas — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:12:47 +0000

Spotted while riding bikes up the coast in Los Angeles today: The boat is about 18 feet long, and of a slightly different shape than our Mare Liberum Dories (closer to a Swampscott dory, with more rounded sides) but same basic design principles -- flat bottom, narrow transom, high bow and side lines. A couple of interesting features: 1. The planking lines on the sides. These are faked by… read more...

Lessons from Buttermilk Channel

thefreeseas — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:34:42 +0000

The row from Valentino Pier Park in Red Hook to Pier 101 on Governor’s Island for City of Water Day on July 18 presented the first real sea challenge to our beloved dories. It was at once our first test in coordinating a flotilla of dories and in navigating tricky… read more... | 2 Comments

Waiting for City of Water Day

thefreeseas — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:12:38 +0000

June 26-28, 2009: Boatbuilding Workshop at the Gowanus Studio Space

thefreeseas — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:22:32 +0000

Mare Liberum is going to be hosting a three-day workshop later this month at the Gowanus Studio Space. Attendees will learn how to trace our templates (and take some home) create all the necessary pieces for building a boat and assemble a complete liberum dory. We'll also be sealing up an existing dory and adding finishing touches (paint… read more...

Mare Liberum on Governor’s Island, Summer 09

thefreeseas — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:59:00 +0000

Mare Liberum has been invited to participate in the Cuny Institute for Sustainable Cities “SUSTAINABLE LIVING FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES” Pershing Hall exhibition on Governor's Island this summer. We'll be presenting a talk and boat-finishing workshop on July 18th on the island, which is also the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance's City of Water 2009. The harbor will be… read more...

Gowan-us! Crudrophonic Sound Event

thefreeseas — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:41:45 +0000

As part of the Issue Project Room first annual Sound-Walk-A-Thon, ML took a group out on the Gowanus canal, and also got to test out our crudrophone - a submerged color-sensor chip which runs color (RGB) data values through an arduino synthesizer device (thanks auduino/tinker.it!) to create a spontaneous soundtrack for the Gowanus canal. The soundtrack was enhanced by a generous and gregarious group of passengers… read more...

Spring for ML

thefreeseas — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:09:10 +0000

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New Video from Red76

thefreeseas — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:26:54 +0000

Our friend Sam Gould over at Red 76 took this video with us when he was in town last summer for Creative Time's Democracy in America Convergence Center at the Park Avenue Armory. Thanks Sam!

1. Raid on the SS Gay

The Battery Republic: Rowing out to the SS Gay - Gowanus Canal from Sam Gould on Vimeo. ----

2. Dylan talks about boats and freedom Dylan Gauthier

Dory-ing the Gowanus Canal in January?

thefreeseas — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:28:07 +0000

The Gowanus Lounge caught one of the ML crew mid-canal this week:

"Insanity: Canoeing (sic) the Gowanus Canal in January"

"Dude is either nuts or really enjoying himself. This was around dusk when it was really getting cold."

Gowanus Lounge.