Alalba Eco Tours – led by Gabriela Basterra, Andy Bichlbaum, and Jeff Day – will explore and document the coast of New York City aboard the Alalba, a lovingly restored 50-foot ketch.

Artist and boat-builder Jessica Segall will conduct the Procession for Immediate Certainty, carrying her handmade Norwegian faering in a parade across Manhattan launch into the East River in the style of a Viking funeral.

In response to the untimely end of the Captain Courageous, a handmade take on the Polynesian fishing canoe made from parts of an ice rink, Hans Maharawal and Thomas Robinson are constructing a new vessel: a pirate ship.

Artists Andrew Eutsler, Shane Heinemeier, and Alison Ward have constructed a dual house-raft for meditation.

Artist Ian Warren is creating a seaworthy replica of Henry David Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond, to navigate from the George Washington Bridge to Marina 59.

Thursday, June 16, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
EFA Project Space, 323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor NYC

An artist discussion related to our Sea Worthy series of events, featuring presentations by Constance Hockaday, Swoon, Mary Mattingly, and Dylan Gauthier.