MAILBOAT

MEMORY LANE

ne of the photos by Onne van der Wal in the story “Shore Thing” (October) brought back so many good memories; it’s as if I heard one of my favorite old songs. The picture was taken at the dock of the sailing pavilion at MIT. The birthplace that was built in 1902 and designed by L. Francis Herreshoff, who was special student at MIT. So many great boats were created by graduates of the School of Naval Design. I learned to sail at MIT many years ago. In 1999, I saw an advertisement for the Stone Horse, a classic cutter-rigged pocket cruiser by yet another MIT graduate, . I bought the boat two weeks later.