After touring the International Yacht Restoration School and seeing the Herreshoff designed boats being restored we took a 10 mile trip up Narragansett Bay to Bristol to visit the Herreshoff museum.  It was a beautiful jib sail with 15 kts of wind right on our stern.  I guess it was not a surprise, but this beautiful evening after a day of hiking around mansions, was shrouded in fog.  We anchored in an unprotected bay right in front of the Wednesday evening racing club.  They were beautiful, zipping back and forth and then off into the fog.  About a half hour later they came back out of the fog with their spinnakers flying.

The next morning the fog was gone but a great thunder storm was overhead.  Eric was working, I was getting the last blog post ready when a great crack and flash of light made me scream.  We turned off all the electronics and watched the water collect in our buckets.

All winter with the canvas bimini we talked about collecting rain water with this new hard top.  This morning within an hour we quickly filled 6 buckets with rain water. This water is used for scrubbing the cockpit, washing dishes, if I heat it up the kids sit in the tubs for a bath or I pour it over my head for a shower.  You can’t beat free water sent down from God to water and clean the land.

When the rain ended we motored over the the museum’s dock and tied up for a few hours.

The Herreschoff museum highlighted, brothers, Nathaniel and John Herreschoff’s turn of the century boat building company.  They built everything from steam boats to beautiful little sailing skiffs and way up to the largest America’s Cup boat ever built.

We were told the museum was started because the motor vessel Thania, which the Herreshoff boat company built in 1905, was donated to the museum which didn’t exist.  So in 1971 Herreshoff descendants began putting together a museum to preserve the accomplishments of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company.

Thania is beautifully varnished inside and out.

Thania sported a all the modern conveniences like a coal stove, ice box, pumping head,  and at the time it was donated it sported a diesel engine.

 
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John was the financier behind the company and his brother Nathanial was the engineer holding the patent on the first catamaran.  We were told this boat, Amaryllis,  beat the pants off of every boat it races and was finally disqualified and not invited back to race again.

In the museum’s collection contains over 60 boats built here. The Torch was raced, donated and then restored by the owners.

The girls were so comfortable on this boat they decided they were going to camp here.

The last part of the museum dealt with yacht racing and the America’s cup.   The Herreshoff America’s cup boats They had a great display featuring the quest for speed through the years and how state of the art changed from state of the art wooden boat construction to fiberglass and more modern techniques.

The Herreshoff boat company built the Reliance, at 200 feet, the biggest boat ever built for the America’s cup. As well as 8 consecutive winning defenders of the cup between 1893 and 1934.

Now we’re back in the Newport anchorage and plan to leave at first light on the north wind projected for tomorrow.  Follow us along on the Where’s Makai link.