Reserve Channel

Our own Bermuda Triangle

adamg — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:21:43 +0000

A.P. Blake noticed the ghostly outline of a sunken ship in a Google satellite image of the tiny part of the Reserve Channel that lies past Summer Street, away from the cruise-ship terminal. Dave Barboza found two more.

Lobsterman makes unsual catch in Boston Harbor: Another boat

adamg — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:37:56 +0000

Boston Police report a lobsterman helped rescue some boaters swamped by the onslaught of yesterday afternoon's driving thunderstorm.

According to police, waves whipped up by the storm capsized the boat around 5:45 p.m. at the Reserve Channel by the Conley Terminal, as it was on its way to India Wharf. The lobsterman, not identified by police, took on the soaked mariners while a Boston Police harbor-unit boat pulled the sodden boat to the nearest dock.

Man's body recovered from water by Black Falcon pier

adamg — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:38:04 +0000

Boston Police report the body of a 36-year-old man was pulled out of the Reserve Channel by Summer Street and Pappas Way around noon today. A preliminary investigation found no obvious signs of trauma on the body, police say.

Man trying to bail out boat needs to get bailed out

adamg — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:59:44 +0000

Boston Police report a man using an inflatable boat to row out to his 18-foot dory to bail it out of rainwater Sunday evening fell out of the boat when it capsized. He couldn't get back in, so he started to swim back to shore. Police say the Harbor Patrol Unit found him in the Reserve Channel past the Peninsula Yacht Club, where Boston firefighters and EMTs were already trying to get him a lifeline. "He was released unharmed," police say.

Some fish

adamg — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:16:36 +0000

Rhea Becker was there when he caught this Boston Harbor striper off the Black Falcon pier in the Reserve Channel.