Riverexplorer
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While I have as yet not quite settled on what make and or model of boat that I will select to do my river and big lake exploring--I do have the name ready to go when the boat does come: RIVER HORSE.
I do admit to stealing this name--or at least this version of this name because for those who have read author William Least Heat-Moon's great 1999 travel adventure book: River Horse: A Voyage Across America, in which he tells of his epic trip aboard (mostly) a 25 foot C-Dory cruiser with twin 45 HP Hondas on it---going from the lower end of Manhattan, up the Hudson to the Erie Canal, out into the Great Lakes, a short portage to the Ohio and then on the Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, the Salmon, Snake and Columbia Rivers out to the Pacific Ocean, largely following in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark.
He named his C-Dory, "Nikawa" which in the Osage native language--translates in English as River Horse.
I plan to do my own writing about my trip on the Ohio, referencing in part that book along with a third book. This second book was essentially a log of a trip done on the Ohio by another writer in the late 1800s, that actually came out in two different versions. The third book I will reference comes from a historical novel about the Ohio, Allen Eckert's "That Dark and Bloody River" which was an award winning and historically accurate tale of the days of early white settler exploration and settlement of the Ohio River Valley.
My book will reference those three books and also I plan to take a look at other aspects of Ohio River Valley history and also paint a portrait of what things are like for those living and working on and near the Ohio in the days I take my trip and write my own work about it.
This will be a project piece as I start in 2020 to earn a Masters Degree in Creative Non-Fiction from Sewanee University/University of the South in Sewanee, TN, in their low residency program.
When it comes to choosing names for boats----when we purchased as a family the 70' Monticello River Yacht----we were the second owners--it was named "Breezy" by its first owner, but I didn't like that name. It was something though--the boat's first owners were also from Cincinnati and when I brought the boat back up to Cincy and the same marina it had been before--the Four Seasons Marina in Cincinnati---we docked her in the same slip that it had previously been assigned.
My mother came up with the name "River Breeze," which I thought was the perfect name for a river going boat.
The people who bought it from us--- renamed it again but kept up with the windy theme---calling the boat "Cool Breeze."
It is now docked down in the Louisville area, the last I knew.
I do find something very appealing about the name "River Horse"--it does imply sort of what I intend to do with this boat---run mostly, the navigable rivers of the Eastern US, "The Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don't Rise."
I do admit to stealing this name--or at least this version of this name because for those who have read author William Least Heat-Moon's great 1999 travel adventure book: River Horse: A Voyage Across America, in which he tells of his epic trip aboard (mostly) a 25 foot C-Dory cruiser with twin 45 HP Hondas on it---going from the lower end of Manhattan, up the Hudson to the Erie Canal, out into the Great Lakes, a short portage to the Ohio and then on the Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, the Salmon, Snake and Columbia Rivers out to the Pacific Ocean, largely following in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark.
He named his C-Dory, "Nikawa" which in the Osage native language--translates in English as River Horse.
I plan to do my own writing about my trip on the Ohio, referencing in part that book along with a third book. This second book was essentially a log of a trip done on the Ohio by another writer in the late 1800s, that actually came out in two different versions. The third book I will reference comes from a historical novel about the Ohio, Allen Eckert's "That Dark and Bloody River" which was an award winning and historically accurate tale of the days of early white settler exploration and settlement of the Ohio River Valley.
My book will reference those three books and also I plan to take a look at other aspects of Ohio River Valley history and also paint a portrait of what things are like for those living and working on and near the Ohio in the days I take my trip and write my own work about it.
This will be a project piece as I start in 2020 to earn a Masters Degree in Creative Non-Fiction from Sewanee University/University of the South in Sewanee, TN, in their low residency program.
When it comes to choosing names for boats----when we purchased as a family the 70' Monticello River Yacht----we were the second owners--it was named "Breezy" by its first owner, but I didn't like that name. It was something though--the boat's first owners were also from Cincinnati and when I brought the boat back up to Cincy and the same marina it had been before--the Four Seasons Marina in Cincinnati---we docked her in the same slip that it had previously been assigned.
My mother came up with the name "River Breeze," which I thought was the perfect name for a river going boat.
The people who bought it from us--- renamed it again but kept up with the windy theme---calling the boat "Cool Breeze."
It is now docked down in the Louisville area, the last I knew.
I do find something very appealing about the name "River Horse"--it does imply sort of what I intend to do with this boat---run mostly, the navigable rivers of the Eastern US, "The Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don't Rise."