Welcome to CFLP7!
Today, we go for a sail with Brian Corbett, owner of WINIFRED, a sailing replica of the 1892 Herreshoff Half-Rater WEE WINN (which is in the HMM collection). Our friends at IYRS built another replica of her last year and sailed her in the Herreshoff Classic Yacht Regatta. WEE WINN was a wet little beast, but that doesn't seem to deter these sailors!
We'll also hear from our friend Jim Giblin about NGH's MIT years, and we're bringing you digital access to all of the Yachting Magazine issues from 1914, an auspicious year for HMCo. We'll learn how to make hardtack which is what you eat when you have flour, water and salt and you need to stay alive, and you can read the Phoenix's coverage of, among other stuff, an HMCo. factory tour, a rare event indeed given Captain Nat's feelings about the press and his penchant for secrecy!
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