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We Finally Make
It Out Onto
Constitution
Island!
by
Ralph J. Ferrusi
I
first motored past Constitution Island
‘way back in my power boating days, when I
was much more fascinated by the fact I was
zooming over the deepest part of the Hudson,
through the most notorious narrow S-turn in the
river between New York Harbor and the Federal
Dam in Albany—known as “World’s End”—than
I was by the Warner family’s intriguing history
on the island. The Dutch called this part of the
Hudson “Martelaer’s Rach”: “Martyr’s Reach”,
for all the boats that sank in this could-be-tricky/
treacherous bit of water.