10/07/08, Marblehead, Ma
Well it's been a busy couple of weeks for us and LONG WHITE CLOUD. We had a wonderful time in Mystic Seaport at the Wooden Boat Show, surrounded in stunning boats and like mined people. LONG WHITE CLOUD won both the 'Self Maintained Yacht' award and the coverted 'Judges Choice Award'.
We then hurried back to Newport for the Robert Teidemen Classic Regatta the following weekend.The first days racing was a drifter with absolutely no wind and no boat in our class finished. The following day we raced and LONG WHITE CLOUD did us proud by winning our division which netted us a Panerai Wall Clock.
We are now in Marblehead, Massachusetts where, in 1935, L. Francis Herreshoff drew the lines of Mobjack, the design of LONG WHITE CLOUD.
Our telephone number is 401 662 6803
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12/06/08, Currently Cruising the New England Coast
Hey, we're back cruising the beautiful islands off the coast of New England.
The weather, which was bitter when we arrived has turned into stunning clear summer days and we are feeling quite at home in these temperatures.
We are currently in Nantucket having enjoyed Marthas Vineyard and Cuttyhunk. We'll head off tomorrow back to Marthas Vineyard, Block Island, Sag Harbour before showing LONG WHITE CLOUD in the Wooden Boat Show in Mystic Seaport. After that we'll be returning to Newport for the Robert Tiedemann Cup, then we'll head up to Maine for the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta on the 2 August, then it's back down to Nantucket for the Opera House Cup, the Herreshoff Rendsezvous in Bristol and the Newport Classic Regatta. Between all of this we hope to catch up with friends we have met along the way.
If you would like to contact us, our cell phone number is 401 662 6803.
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12/04/08, Cat Island, Bahamas
This place is was the retirement home of Father Jerome. Interesting guy, he started off as John Cecil Hawes born in England in 1876. He became an architect, then an Anglican Priest. After the 1908 hurricane the Anglican Bishop sent this architect/priest to restore the damaged churches. He has left a unique stamp around the islands with churches designed with very think walls made of hurricane proof stonework and barrel vaulted roofs. After an interim elsewhere he spent time as a wagon driver, a monk, a missionary and a horse breeder, then he became a Catholic Priest and returned to the Bahamas and built several other Catholic Churches. So it's weird to see similar architecture in the two demoninations, often side by side in the same settlement.
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