http://woodenkimonos.com/therealmurphy Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:57:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://woodenkimonos.com/therealmurphy/2008/12/atlas-marina/ http://woodenkimonos.com/therealmurphy/2008/12/atlas-marina/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:41:35 +0000 therealmurphy http://woodenkimonos.com/therealmurphy/?p=22 The Atlas Yacht Club is a marina twenty minutes outside New York City that was settled by squatter fishermen in the 1930′s. It’s made up of about seventy-five shacks that sit side by side on an old pier that was once used to load ships with coal that were docked on the Kill Van Kull, a strip of water that separates New Jersey and Staten Island. The club lays between a field of huge petroleum tanks and a chemical refinery. My dad and his dad have both kept their boats there well before I was born. When I was young, I used to build things in my dad’s workshop with random things I found around the yard. Even though I never really was into fishing, I loved eating the things my father caught and going out for rides on our boat. I decided to document this place before the land gets taken back by the city to be torn down and developed into waterfront condos.

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