Sunday, July 14, 2024

L.F. Herreshoff's "Big Ti" comes to Port Clyde



L. FRANCIS HERRESHOFF: THE FLOWERING of  GENIUS VOLUME II 1931 - 1972

By Roger C. Taylor - Mystic Seaport

I was enjoying my blackened haddock sandwich on the waterfront at Port Clyde, USA as the town likes to bill itself - when I saw a familiar shape.
Ticonderoga - the flagship of Greenwich, CT's Indian Harbor Yacht Club had entered the mooring field.
The 90 year old clipper-bow boat is  the most famous of L.Francis Herreshoff's dozens of designs.
72 feet on deck, 63' on the waterline, 79' overall, displacing 102,388 lbs, it is a beautifully proportioned marconi-rigged ketch.

Today's mission? Ice cream for the young crew.





 

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