Before we were all distracted by our phones
people joined clubs and
raced small boats like these
Herreshoff 12 1/2s which the legendary designer Nat Herreshoff called
Buzzards Bay Boys Boats
Since then a few fleets have flourished. One is at North Haven Island, 12 miles east of Rockland, Maine a 45 minute ferry ride from the mainland. There a fleet of the sturdy 15'9" keel boats still thrives - some old, most new versions of the boats they call Foxeyes - for the Fox Island Thoroughfare leading east toward Stonington. Windcheck tells the story of the century old summer racing fleet.
I guess I have to note that my boat North River 2 is a Herreshoff BB 14 designed by Nat's son L. Francis.
The designer of the Hancock Tower
and the Charleston African American Museum
out for a sail in his Foxeye Elsie Q.
[ Photo by his son-in-law Mark Speed]
North River 2 - my boat - ghosting on LI Sound
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