Brilliant is a schooner located at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut.. Brilliant was built in 1932 on City Island, Bronx, by Henry B. Nevins Yard to a design by Olin Stephens of Sparkman & Stephens. Brilliant was built as an ocean racing yacht, and on her maiden voyage crossed the Atlantic Ocean in record time for a sailing yacht of her size. During World War II, the schooner was acquired by the U.S. Coast Guard and used to patrol the New England coast for enemy submarines. Brilliant was donated to Mystic Seaport in 1957. Mystic Seaport now uses her as an offshore classroom and features her as part of their collection of watercraft.Mystic Seaport or Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea in Mystic, Connecticut is the largest maritime museum in the United States. It is notable for its collection of sailing ships and boats and for the re-creation of the crafts and fabric of an entire 19th-century seafaring village.—mysticseaport.org and Wikipedia
Annual WoodenBoat Show held at Mystic Seaport is a festival, which is hosted in partnership with WoodenBoat Publications, celebrating the design and craftsmanship of wooden craft. The three-day show offers wooden boat enthusiasts and marine history buffs wooden boats of every type—large and small, old and new, power, sail, oar and paddle on display. Including cruising yachts, launches, runabouts, fishing boats, performance powerboats, daysailers, dinghies, rowboats, canoes, performance shells, multi-hulls and racing boats. Mystic Seaport or Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea in Mystic, Connecticut is the largest maritime museum in the United States. It is notable for its collection of sailing ships and boats and for the re-creation of the crafts and fabric of an entire 19th-century seafaring village.—mysticseaport.org and Wikipedia
Watkins Glen State Park is located in the village of Watkins Glen, in New York's Finger Lakes region. The park's lower part is near the village, while the upper part is open woodland. It was opened to the public in 1863 and was privately run as a tourist resort until 1906, when it was purchased by New York State. The centerpiece of the 778-acre park is a 400-foot-deep narrow gorge cut through rock by a stream, Glen Creek, that was left hanging when glaciers of the Ice age deepened the Seneca valley. The rocks of the area are sedimentary part of a dissected plateau consisting mostly of soft shales, with some layers of harder sandstone and limestone. Trails run along the wooded rim of the gorge, and run over, under and along the park's 19 waterfalls by way of stone bridges and more than 800 stone steps.—Wikipedia
