I’ve grown up spending my summers at Herreshoff, and have made some of my greatest memories learning to sail as a student and more recently teaching as an instructor. One […]
Month: February 2021
Reminiscences
Most of my sailing life has been in New England, first on Cape Cod waters and now in Maine. When I was young my family had a series of cruising […]
From the Vault: A “Halo of Mystery”
A Word from Thomas Fleming Day
This Week in Herreshoff History: February 25
Ice boats for the Arctic and for home, eighteen New York 30s, dispatches from Cocoanut Grove and a report from the local chapter of the Girl Scout Mariners
Sailor’s Ditty Bag
Our kids activity this week is a step-by-step tutorial for sewing your own ditty bag
Every Summer
There has not been one summer that I don’t remember spending its majority at Herreshoff’s sailing program. As a student and now instructor, sailing has become the root of many […]
Introducing “The Herreshoff Brothers and their Torpedo Boats”
A series of papers on bringing innovation to the “New Navy”
Lecture Video: “The Life and Work of A. Sidney DeWolf Herreshoff”
Filmed at the Herreshoff Marine Museum on August 22, 1995
Learning How to Sail
The first day that I had ever been put on an O’PEN Bic, a one-person sailboat designed for younger sailers, I was ready to learn how to be an independent […]
Great Expectations
In the summer of 2010, my Texan parents bought a “summer project” in downtown Bristol. With all their time being taken up planting a few seeds or looking though paint […]