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39. My friend had a friend who worked on the 20th or so of the World Trade Center. We got to see the Parade of Sails

Sun Dec 7, 2025, 01:23 AM

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from there.

Mu favorite story the "Parade" was scheduled to sail from the G.W. bridge to the bay by the Statue of Liberty, probably around 1 p.m.
Beginning early morning, small craft were lining the bay in front of Ellis and Liberty islands. Of course there would be problems when they got in the way of the sailing ships.

Around 11:00, the Coast Guard began ordaining the boats out of the bay. Most complied. But again, there are those who are entitled or as Orwell wrote, are more equal than others.

One guy, the Coast guard ordered his boat to move clear of the area.

Entitled boater: "I can't move the boat. The anchor's jammed into something on the bottom."

Coast Guard: " You have 5i minutes to pull op the anchor before we cut the chain."

The boater suddenly unjammed his anchor.

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