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.

Saturday Cove Farm, Northport, ME - 2014

Friday, July 12, 2024

Barron's Boatyard, City Island, Bronx, NY

My boat - North River 2 - has been maintained here

at Barron's for twenty-five years.

Designed by L. Francis Herreshoff

Saturday, July 6, 2024

Year 248 - Independence Day 2024

New Harbor Co-Op, Maine

Independence

Homeport: Matinicus Plantation, Gulf of Maine

Friday, July 5, 2024

Inspiring and unstoppable: Louis Robein's humble triumph wins hearts in the Global Solo Challenge

Inspiring and unstoppable: Louis Robein's humble triumph wins hearts in the Global Solo Challenge

When Louis Robein sailed into A Coruna, clean-shaven and relaxed, it was easy to mistake him for a sailor returning from a gentle Sunday sail. Wearing a t-shirt that read “Never underestimate an old man who likes sailing,” he was, in fact, completing his incredible circumnavigation of the globe. It took him 277 days and 5 hours since his departure on September 30th last year.

At 16:32 local time on July 3rd, Louis Robein crossed the finish line of the 2023-2024 Global Solo Challenge, solo and round-the-world by the three great capes, taking 7th place in one of the most epic and inspiring voyages of the event. Louis didn’t just cross the finish line, he inspired the public and won the hearts of thousands with his incredible determination and tenacity, overcoming numerous setbacks and challenges.

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Fair winds - a summer day

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Willie Mays, 93, the GOAT, has left the field.

Willie Mays, 93, the GOAT, has left the field.

Willie Mays, Electrifying Ballplayer of Power and Grace, Dies at 93

Mays, the Say Hey Kid, was baseball’s exuberant embodiment of the complete player. Some say he was the greatest of them all.

By Richard Goldstein

June 18, 2024Updated 11:41 p.m. ET

Willie Mays, the spirited center fielder whose brilliance at the plate, in the field and on the basepaths for the Giants led many to call him the greatest all-around player in baseball history, died on Tuesday. He was 93.

At his death, which was announced by the San Francisco Giants on social media, he had been the oldest living member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. He died in Palo Alto in the assisted living facility he lived in, said Larry Baer, the president and chief executive of the Giants.

In 22 National League seasons, with the Giants in New York and San Francisco and a brief return to New York with the Mets, preceded by a 1948 stint in the Negro leagues, Mays compiled extraordinary statistics. He hit 660 career home runs and had 3,293 hits and a .301 career batting average.

But Mays did more than personify the complete ballplayer. An exuberant style of play and an effervescent personality made him one of the game’s — and America’s — most charismatic figures, a name that even people far afield from the baseball world recognized instantly as a national treasure.