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It's officially springtime in Boston, meaning the city is filled with magnolias, marathon runners and the iconic swan boats. Started in 1877, the Boston swan boats are a beloved tradition that ...
The Swan Boats officially open on Saturday, when Mayor Michelle Wu and her family are due for a float through the lagoon at 11 a.m., along with a group of students from Boston’s schools.
TEAMS OF TEN RACED AGAINST THE CLOCK TO PULL A 21,000 POUND DUCK BOAT ACROSS THE BOSTON COMMON YESTERDAY. NOW THAT’S A WORKOUT. THE EVENT RAISED MONEY T Teams of 10 gathered on Boston Common ...
TEAMS OF TEN RACED AGAINST THE CLOCK TO PULL. GET THIS A 21,000 POUND DUCK BOAT ACROSS THE BOSTON COMMON. THE EVENT HELPED RAISE MONEY TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS IN THE CITY. AND THERE’S ...
It's officially springtime, which means Boston's duck boats have defrosted and are ready to waddle and wade through the city. Tours began on Friday at 9 a.m. and will run seven days a week through ...
WE’RE Three people suffered serious injuries Tuesday when a boat struck a stanchion left behind in Boston Harbor from a bridge that was demolished nearly a decade ago. The boat struck one of the ...
Whenever you drive the Tobin Bridge, just before you leave Charlestown, you’re passing over the last company making boats ... in East Boston, to the “unsinkable” Boston Whaler, designed ...
A few years later point guard Chris Paul entered the league and his also joined their group, creating the famous "Banana Boat" friends. Technically Anthony wasn't in the photo but Paul wasn't ...
Richard “Dick” Fisher, a Harvard graduate who invented the whaler boats. – Handout/Boston Whaler The Boston Whaler, he promised, was unsinkable. And to prove that his boat would stay afloat ...
In 1958, in a garage in Braintree, an eccentric Harvard grad named Dick Fisher revolutionized nautical design when he began crafting a little boat that looked like a blue bathtub. He called his ...