Another view of the historic Half Moon replica ship.
The Half Moon ship docked at the Newburgh waterfront.
One of two crow's nests on the ship.
Cooking for the ship's crew was done in this galley.
One of the ship's six cannon was stowed below deck.
If you didn’t get up to Newburgh for a tour of the replica ship The Half Moon this weekend, photographer Phil Hopp did go through the ship with his grandchildren and he shares some photos here.
The Half Moon is a replica of the ship that explorer Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson river in 1609 as he tried to find a passageway from North America to Asia.
The original ship was built by the Dutch East India Company. The replica was built in 1989. It has six sails on three masts, sporting 2,757 square feet of canvas. It's equipped with six cannons and four anchors.
The Half Moon was in Newburgh this past weekend to mark the beginning of the 2009 Quadricentennial of Hudson’s voyage up the river that bears his name, the voyage of French explorer Samuel de Champlain, as well as the bi-centennial of Robert Fulton’s successful voyage on a steamboat up the Hudson river.
I believe that it is worth mentioning that among the many volunteers at dockside and onboard the ship was Cornwall-on-Hudson's Karen Monti, giving her time, historical knowledge and people skills to the event.
