90 years ago this month, the first sports writer to ever win a Pulitzer looks back on an HMCo. schooner’s three-decade career…
Author: e.ansel
TMHH: “Beautiful Photographs of Famous Boats That Have Made Yachting History”
An ad from 101 years ago, and an introduction to our new column, This Month in Herreshoff History !
This Week in Herreshoff History: March 18
A racing catboat for the midwest, another reminder of a worldwide pandemic past, and a bit of Herreshoff design genealogy
The Herreshoff Brothers and their Torpedo Boats, Part I: The Players, 1860
A series of papers on bringing innovation to the “New Navy”
This Week in Herreshoff History: March 11
Construction begins on a little sailing dinghy, several torpedo boats are on their way to the Navy, and an H23 is launched
This Week in Herreshoff History: March 4
Another 46-foot-class rule beater, a handful of fin keels, a publishing baron’s fleet and fears of a boiler explosion
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
Introducing “The Herreshoff Brothers and their Torpedo Boats”
A series of papers on bringing innovation to the “New Navy”
This Week in Herreshoff History: February 18
Schooners and fishing boats, some geographical confusion, a very busy winter and spring, and quite a few steam yachts