Does anyone have pics of Skerry's dingy ride into Boston?

08/08/04 | ndjeep

[NDJeep]

I was wondering if anyone had any pictures to post of Kerry's boat ride at the convention. I was wondering if it looked as impressive as this?

[concerned about politics]

That's a boat for a Bush entrance! Bring in the big guy!

[daviddennis]

Here is the only picture I could find.

This just doesn't capture the sheer absurdity of the event as I first saw it on FR. The ferry is huge, something like 75-100 feet long, and Kerry is this little dot on the top deck with his retinue of supporters, trying to look significant.

Ah! Here's a link to a frame grab taking from the live thread on the event. Scroll down to message 146 and there it is, in all its absurdity.

If he wanted to look like a captain, he should have used his Hinckley yacht. But I suppose that really wouldn't make him look like a common man. Not that there's much chance of that anyway.

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[ProudVet77]

FWIW - Kerry's "triumphant" trip from East Boston to Charlestown wasn't on the regular harbor taxi. First off, the harbor taxi does not make a direct trip from Logan to Charlestown. You have to take a ferry from Logan to Long Wharf and change boats there to get to charlestown.
What they were on was a chartered Boston Harbor Cruise boat. Knowing the area as I do, he actually made a loop as he had his stbd side running parallel to the baseball field on commercial Ave. What was hilarious was that he was waving to the shore, but nobody was there.