Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction xiii
Sailboats & Racers
Watch Hill 15 (1922) 2
Nathanael Herreshoff's classic racer designed for the Watch Hill Yacht Club
Fishers Island One Design (1922) 6
The racing fleet of the Groton Long Point Yacht Club; designed Charles D. Mower 6
Tigress (1927) 10
A catboat for the ages; big (30 feet), beamy, and beautiful
Sculpin and Perch (1916-1925) 14
Two surviving Herreshoff "Fish boats" built for members of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club (SCYC) on Long Island and the Warwick (Rhode Island) Country Club on Narragansett Bay
International One Designs (1936-1983) 21
Famed Fishers Island fleet of racers whose Norwegian-inspired lines helped set the standards of "one-design" competition
Cinderella (1936) 25
A Concordia 35-footer built in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and designed by famed yacht designer Ray Hunt. His design for Cinderella served as a prototype for his line of Concordia yawls, introduced in 1938.
Pilgrim (1947) 34
The original Revonoc owned by the late, famed racer Harvey Conover (Revonoc is Conover spelled backward), who met his fate in the Bermuda Triangle, onboard another vessel; winner of numerous, prestigious cups
Arion (1951) 38
The world's first fiberglass sailing yacht, designed by Sidney Herreshoff
Red Wing (1970) 42
L. Francis Herreshoff's design for a family-friendly sailboat with distinctive "leeboards"
Winsome (1971) 47
A rare Noank sloop, based on classic Iobstering boats that once worked the waters off Noank and New London, Connecticut
Herreshoff 121/2-Footer (various dates) 52
Originally designed by Nathanael G. Herreshoff for young (children) sailors in Buzzards Bay in 1914, the 121/2-footer (H-12) has been called "one of the finest, if not the finest, small sailing yacht designs ever created."
Hanuman (2009) 58
Replica of J Class America's Cup racing sloop Endeavour II.
Cruisers, Speedoats & Runabouts
Cangarda (1901) 64
This classic, Victorian-era luxury steam yacht, one of only three left in the world, was a host vessel for British royalty abovedecks and upper-crust sex scandals below!
Miss Asia (1923) 70
Elegant, flapper-era, Consolidated Speedway luxury commuter, once owned by the Astors of Newport
Annie Laurie (1929) 75
A 60-foot cruiser, built at Gray Boats shipyard in Thomaston, Maine, and used by Boston businessman Frank L. Putnam of Marblehead, Massachusetts, to get to his office in Boston
Ariel II (1931) 82
This Sidney Herreshoff-designed, 46-foot power cruiser was one of the few motor yachts built by the Herreshoff boatyard during that time. It is berthed in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Katie Mack (1932) 89
This one-of-a-kind, purpose-built rumrunner is now a pleasure cruiser berthed in Southwest Harbor, Maine.
Aphrodite (1937) 96
A Watch Hill icon and remnant of a bygone era of luxury yachting
Muskrat (1954) 101
This "bass boat"-type cruiser, built in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, by American Boatbuilding Corporation, was the first fiberglass boat on Connecticut's Pawcatuck River.
Kittiwake II (1964) 105
A classic Bunker and Ellis express cruiser that began with a love affair and has inspired poetry
Ulysses (1967) 110
This utterly unique, narrow-bodied cruiser was built by a dilettante, genius designer from Long Island to circumnavigate the globe on eight hundred dollars of fuel.
Karinneh (2010) 115
Turkish-built Vicem luxury yacht, based on traditional two- and three-masted Bosporus schooners, cruising the waters of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, and Block Island Sound
Soirée (2006) 120
A French interpretation of an American classic cruiser
Golden 21 (2017) 123
Unique 70-horsepower speedboat by avant-garde Russian designer Vlad Murnikov of Groton, Massachusetts
Rockport-Albury Runabout (2016) 128
A classic, sleek little speedboat built on the coast of Maine, in Rockport, based on the Albury runabout, originally designed for the waters of the Bahamas by famed boatwright Willard Albury
Working Boats, Active & Retired
Anne (1884) 134
Refurbished oystering boat from Long Island, now a pleasure boat in Mystic
Grayling (1915) 138
Sturdy, classic, hardworking sardine carrier, now a pleasure boat
Klang II (1924) 142
A "Dunkirker," one of the fleet of private "volunteer" vessels used to rescue Allied forces from coastal France during WWIFs "Operation Ariel," a follow-up mission to the famed "Dunkirk evacuation" of 1940
Nantucket Lightship (1936) 147
Officially the "Nantucket LV-112," the largest (148 feet) and last-serving of several lightships to mark the hazardous shoals off Nantucket
Belle (1948) 155
Fire Island's first official ferry and the first and last of her kind; salvaged and repurposed as a houseboat
Summer Girl (1960) 160
Clamming skiff of indeterminate age, built in Charlestown, Rhode Island, lovingly restored with a heart-warming backstory
Neptune (1967) 164
Oldest fishing boat in the Stonington fleet; steel-hulled Luther Blount design
Mrs. (1975) 168
New life for a retired Navy personnel carrier, fishing for oysters in Long Island Sound
Mende Liberté (2016) 172
A 20-foot "Tolman skiff," a hand-built Alaskan fishing boat, with African motifs
Rowing Boats
Noank Pulling Boat (2014) 178
A hand-built, wooden, one-of-a-kind hybrid kayak-rower
Odyssey Touring Rowers (2017) 181
This unique rowboat is rowed facing forward via the unique FrontRower™ system patented by Rantilla Rowing of Warren, Rhode Island.
Rushton-style Canoe
Popularized by famed early nineteenth-century canoe and small-craft builder J. H. Rushton of the Adirondacks, these hand-built, lapstrake canoes are built by boatwright Geoff Burke of Chocorua Boatworks in Tamworth, New Hampshire.
Lotus (late 1800s) 192
A charming, surry-topped Bowdish skiff, dating from the late nineteenth century, lovingly restored by the famed Muller Boatworks of Sunapee, New Hampshire
