{"id":33516,"date":"2019-12-28T08:56:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T13:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=33516"},"modified":"2019-12-28T08:57:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T13:57:31","slug":"bosworth-honored-for-10k-hours-of-service-on-kalmar-nyckle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=33516","title":{"rendered":"Bosworth honored for 10K hours of service on Kalmar Nyckle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10877\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TonyBosworth-aloft-in-WashDC_3479.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10877\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10877\" src=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TonyBosworth-aloft-in-WashDC_3479-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Bosworth aloft in the rigging of Kalmar Nyckel in Washington D.C. in 2009.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Climbing 95 feet above the deck of The Tall Ship of Delaware would be a thrill for some of us.\u00a0 For Tony Bosworth, it\u2019s been a 21 year passion. As a <em>Kalmar Nyckel <\/em>volunteer he reached his 10,000-hour milestone for service to the ship this summer, and now a carving of his likeness will be mounted on the stern of the ship for two years. A resident of Kennett Square, his face will be just one of six volunteers who earned a coveted place with a gallery of carvings of Delaware politicians and supporters, dating back to the ship\u2019s launch in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen <em>Kalmar Nyckel\u2019s <\/em>Captain Hiott put out the first call for sailing crew in December 1997, my wife, Gina, read the news and said, \u201cWhy don\u2019t we do that together?\u201d\u00a0 Class started in January (just like it does every year),\u201d recalls Bosworth. \u201cFor the first couple of years we both crewed.\u00a0 The first training class started with 204 members and 110 completed the class. The crew slept on the deck in sleeping bags before bunks and the below-decks area was built out \u2013 it was pretty rough at first.\u00a0 Then we voyaged to Glen Cove, Long Island \u2013 and that was a great trip!\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to 2019: \u201cIt was a great thrill to be recognized for 10,000 hours of service on the ship this summer. We were on the Hudson River near Yonkers and Captain Lauren spread the word. It felt great to be on the ship, doing a voyage with my crewmates when I reached this milestone. It made me stop and look back, because you just do your job and all of the activities\u2026 this has been my primary \u2018fun job\u2019 since before the construction of the ship was even completed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sailing on <em>Kalmar Nyckel <\/em>was a natural fit for Bosworth who served in the U.S Navy, raced sail boats for pleasure, and brought 25 years of maritime experience to the <em>Kalmar Nyckel<\/em>. \u201cWhere else can you sail a full scale replica of a 17<sup>th<\/sup> century square-rigged ship on ocean passages, the Chesapeake Bay, Hudson River, Delaware River, and Wilmington\u2019s Christina River? It\u2019s a one-of-a-kind program. I choose my schedule and get out of it as much as I have put into it,\u201d reflects Bosworth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climbing 95 feet above the deck of The Tall Ship of Delaware would be a thrill for some of us.\u00a0 For Tony Bosworth, it\u2019s been a 21 year passion. As a Kalmar Nyckel volunteer he reached his 10,000-hour milestone for service to the ship this summer, and now a carving of his likeness will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11787,9428,6518,508,11785,11786],"class_list":["post-33516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-000-hour","tag-9428","tag-featured","tag-honors","tag-kalmar-nyckle","tag-tony-bosworth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33517,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33516\/revisions\/33517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}