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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Port Tack Start
I have been racing our H12 “Cricket” ever since I can remember. The Buzzards Yacht Club has a terrific fleet of H12s and early on in my racing career, they […]
It Wasn’t a Boat. It Was a Childhood.
I had spent the bulk of my life in the Hartford area, building a career, raising a family. But when I retired, there was only thing I wanted to do: […]
Bullseye Dreams
Bullseye Dreams By David C. Burnham, reprinted from the Bullseye Class Newsletter, March 1999 The water was clear, clean, shimmering, sapphire. The sun, an orange ball rising among cotton clouds. […]
Herreshoff = Problem Solving
When I think of the Herreshoff brand, I don’t think about the product. Rather, I think about what made the product possible. To some, the Herreshoff Museum is a treasure […]
Still Running Strong: The Legacy of Captain Nat’s Herreshoff Twelves
The boats with a century long history are still going strong.
“She’s No Cruiser” : story of a beloved Watch Hill 15
In 1922 some of our Watch Hill Yacht Club members commissioned Captain Nat Herreshoff to design a boat for our adult sailors which would be suitable for our shallow Bay […]