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    LIVING HISTORY

    Oct 12, 2021 5 minutes
    Story by Pat Mundus
    Photography by Alison Langley

    hen the Herreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol, Rhode Island, was first established, I was a rough-around-the-edges teenager. Raised in Montauk, New York, I had no appreciation for fine sailing vessels or what made them go. Yet I followed my passion for boats to an old yard in Three Mile Harbor where an enigmatic little fin-keeled sloop called intrigued me. A yard worker mumbled “Herreshoff,” which was an altogether new word to me. I took a photo of and sent it to the Herreshoff Marine Museum, which had recently opened. Halsey C. Herreshoff replied with a handwritten letter saying that I had an eye for fast boats. was designed by the inventor of the fin-keel, his grandfather Nathanael G. Herreshoff, in 1899. That letter, and

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