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WHISTLER REJOINS THE S CLASS
The 1928 Herreshoff S Boat WHISTLER, Hull #1080, was re-launched Saturday, June 19, 2010, shortly after 11:00am at Casey's Boat Yard in Newport, RI. WHISTLER has had a great sailing history on Narragansett Bay since 1943 and she has been through a recent rebuild by Jens Lang.
The museum would like to congratulate Ted Boylan and his family on the restoration of WHISTLER and her rejoining the Narragansett Bay S Class.
AMERICA’S CUP HALL OF FAME TO INDUCT EXCEPTIONAL SLATE OF NOMINEES
(BRISTOL, RI) - The America's Cup Hall of Fame, located in Bristol Rhode Island, is pleased to announce the selection of Simon Daubney, Warwick Fleury, Murray Jones, Dean Phipps, Mike Drummond, and Halsey Herreshoff for induction on September 18, 2010. The 17th Induction Ceremony, presented by Rolex Watch USA and hosted at the New York Yacht Club’s Harbour Court in Newport, Rhode Island, will be held in conjunction with the America’s Cup 12 Metre Era Reunion weekend.
Simon Daubney (New Zealand)
Daubney has three decades of racing experience, beginning in dinghies on his home waters of Auckland before moving into the match racing scene. He is an eight-time world champion, has competed in three Olympic Games in the Soling, and has taken part in seven America's Cup campaigns.
Warwick Fleury (New Zealand)
Having participated in eight America’s Cup campaigns, three with Alinghi and five with New Zealand teams, mainsail trimmer Warwick Fleury is also an experienced match racer. He was a three time world champion with Team Magic, a Bermuda Gold Cup winner six times, and has also won world championships in Farr 40s and the Mumm 36.
Murray Jones (New Zealand)
Murray Jones is one of the most respected keelboat sailors in the world. Although well-known for his five America’s Cup campaigns, Jones had a long and illustrious sailing career before his belated move into the America's Cup arena. He represented New Zealand at three world youth sailing Championships in the mid-1970s, before getting into Olympic campaigning in the 1980s.
Dean Phipps (New Zealand)
Beginning with 1983’s Victory ’83 challenge, Phipps has participated in eight Cup campaigns. He is also a storied offshore racer, with two Whitbreads under his belt, four Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Races, four Rolex Fastnet Races, and two Newport Bermuda Race campaigns.
Mike Drummond (New Zealand)
Mike Drummond has over 20 years America’s Cup experience as a design engineer, principal designer and navigator. He has been a part of four America’s Cup winning teams and continues to serve as BMW ORACLE Racing’s Design Director following victory with the American team in the 33rd America’s Cup.
Halsey Herreshoff (United States)
Distinguished as the most active America’s Cup sailor during the 12 Metre era, Halsey Herreshoff was a crewman as bowman, crew boss, or navigator in six campaigns and sailed in four America’s Cup matches. A naval architect and marine engineer, Herreshoff has also contributed to the support of technology and management of many campaigns. He is also the founder of the America’s Cup Hall of Fame with the late Edward du Moulin.
Sponsorship opportunities for this important event celebrating the Cup are available; please contact Sara Watson at the America’s Cup Hall of Fame at 401-253-5000 or s.watson@herreshoff.org.
HERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM ANNOUNCES GRANT FROM COLLECTORS FOUNDATION FOR AFTER SCHOOL MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
The Herreshoff Marine Museum/America's Cup Hall of Fame is pleased to announce that the Collectors Foundation of Traverse City, Michigan, has awarded a $10,000 matching grant to the Museum for the planning, development, and implementation of an after school mentorship program in classic boat repair and maintenance. The new after school program will reach out to the Museum's skilled volunteers, staff, and regional boat restoration specialists to serve as mentors to middle and high school students. The Museum is actively seeking charitable contributions to meet the $10,000 goal set by the Collectors Foundation and fully fund this new addition to its Herreshoff Institute programming.
Youth enrolled in the program will work alongside skilled adult mentors, in the same complex of 19th century buildings where the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. designed and built the boats utilized in the Museum's sailing program. Using tools and patterns not unlike those utilized nearly a century ago, students will assist in servicing and maintaining the Museum's fleet of Herreshoff 12 ½ s and other boats utilized in the Herreshoff Institute Seamanship Program. The program is the only one of its type in the nation, utilizing wooden boats designed and built nearly a century ago at the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., now the home of the Museum.
These boats have been maintained by generations of experienced and knowledgeable individuals, alongside whom successive generations of youth were taught to care for them with equal skill. These are the boats we seek to preserve, to care for, and to restore while at the same time building young people of greater character and responsibility who can better appreciate their role as stewards of these boats and of the skills necessary to insure their preservation for future generations.
The Herreshoff Institute Seamanship Program serves a diverse population of young ladies and gentlemen from the Narragansett Bay region who attend the program for a modest fee. It is a testament to the program's success that many of these students return, some for several consecutive years, and that alumni continue their relationship with the program as seasonal instructors.
The new mentorship program is scheduled to get underway in Summer, 2010.
Collectors Foundation is an educational grant-making organization founded by Hagerty Insurance and funded by collector vehicle and classic boat enthusiasts to serve youth development and the long-term interests of the collector vehicle and classic boat communities. More information about the Foundation can be found on its website: www.collectorsfoundation.org.
HERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM AWARDED CONSERVATION ASSESSMENT GRANT
The Herreshoff Marine Museum is honored to have been made the recipient of a Conservation Assessment Program grant to assess the historic Herreshoff House and related collections at the Museum’s campus along Hope and Burnside Streets.
The Conservation Assessment Program (CAP) is supported through a cooperative agreement between the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Heritage Preservation. This conservation assessment will provide a survey of the museum’s domestic life collection as well as the environmental conditions, policies and procedures relating to the collection’s care. The program supports multiple site visits by conservation professionals to perform the assessment. These professionals, expert in collections care and historic architecture, will provide assessment reports for both the structure and collection.
“This award validates the Museum’s efforts to expand our work to include the life and work of the Herreshoff family beyond its well known contributions to the yachting world”, says Lawrence Fisher, Executive Director of the Herreshoff Marine Museum. “It is important that we document and preserve examples of domestic life at HMCo during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. This grant will enable us to better interpret this important asset which was the home of John Brown Herreshoff and Nathanael Greene Herreshoff during their formative years and at the birth of their famous boatbuilding enterprise.”
Heritage Preservation is a national non-profit dedicated to the preservation of the nation’s artifacts. The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. Heritage Preservation’s Conservation Assessment Program is supported through a cooperative agreement with the Institute. For more information on IMLS, please visit www.imls.gov; for more information on the CAP and Heritage Preservation, visit www.heritagepreservation.org.
SY NELLIE REBORN IN MAINE
The Herreshoff Marine Museum congratulates owners Jeffrey Boal and Fernando Alva on the launching of the restored sailing yacht NELLIE on Sunday, October 18, 2009. This beautiful 46' cutter, designed by Nathanael G. Herreshoff and originally launched in 1903, has been expertly brought back to life by Wayne George and the restoration team at Warren Pond Boatworks of Maine.
 
HERRESHOFF ALERION LAUNCHED BY BEETLE BOAT SHOP
On September 26, a new Herreshoff-designed 26' foot Alerion sloop was launched in Mattapoisett Harbor by the Beetle Boat Shop of Wareham, MA. The Herreshoff Marine Museum offers its congratulations to Beetle and the vessel's owner, Alden Brewster, and our thanks to them for keeping the Herreshoff legacy alive.
For more information on the new Alerion and additional photos, please visit the Beetle Boat website.
HERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM SAVES 100-YEAR OLD Q BOAT FROM DESTRUCTION
The Herreshoff Marine museum stepped in and recently rescued an important wooden boat built in 1909 from destruction by chainsaw-wielding wreckers on the Boston waterfront. The boat, originally named MORE JOY, is an original ‘Q’ Boat type, designed and built by Captain Nathanael Greene Herreshoff for the President of American Coal Products, and is the oldest surviving boat of its type. Amazingly, this boat had not only survived for one hundred years, but is likely to have sailed every year of her life.
At the urging of the Owner, whose health is in decline, the Museum was able to save the boat from the wreckers and she has been delivered safely to the Museum site in Bristol, RI. The Owner and now donor stood between the wreckers and the boat as efforts were made to call off her imminent destruction.
Click here to read more about MORE JOY (HMCo #691) in this article by our curator, John Palmieri.
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