Conversations with Classic Boats

Conversations with Classic Boats episodes:

• 05.06.2024

  Ep 30 - Two Curators Have a Gam

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• 02.22.2024

  Ep 29 - College Sailing Goes Offshore—1928 to 2023

  Episodes & Galleries RSS In the late 1920s, competitive college sailing took root in keelboats, setting the stage for iconic events like the McMillan Cup and an array of college offshore regattas nationwide. Sailors from expert to novice revel...

  
• 12.07.2023

  Ep 28 - Trailblazers and Triumphs in Women's Competitive Sailing

  Episodes & Galleries RSS A five women team makes women’s sailing history. In September 1985, mastering an international fleet and Hurricane Gloria to take the inaugural Rolex International Women’s Keelboat Regatta and pointing to the inclusion of Women’s Sailing in the...

  
• 08.14.2023

  Sailors Log #2 - Bob Johnstone

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• 05.03.2023

  Ep 27 - Sixes in Seattle: The Search for the Lost Fleet

  Episodes & Galleries RSS We go cross-country in search of the iconic Six Metres of the 1930s. We find the crème de la crème, Goose and Llanoria, in the boatyard of this design's dedicated collector, Peter Hofmann, at Port...

  
• 03.24.2023

  Sailors Log #1 - Dave Perry

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• 02.13.2023

  Ep 26 - Uffa Fox, Bruce Kirby: The Flying 14s and the Modern Planing Dinghy

  Episodes & Galleries RSS From England to Canada to America, Uffa Fox and Bruce Kirby are the 20th century pioneers of the planing dinghy. This episode features an exclusive interview with Nathaniel Philbrick, an American author and historian, winner...

  
• 12.21.2022

  Ep 25 - Solo Sailors - Clay Burkhalter

  Episodes & Galleries RSS Our featured long distance solo sailor - Clay Burkhalter, tells the tale of his 2007 Transat Race in Acadia, his J Boats designed 21 foot offshore boat. ...

  
• 08.16.2022

  Ep 24 - Collecting the Classics at the 50th Opera House Cup in Nantucket

  Episodes & Galleries RSS The 50th running of Nantucket's Opera House Cup attracts the elite classic boats to race and be seen at the Classic Yacht Exhibition ...

  
• 06.13.2022

  Ep 23 - Signature Boats: A Senior Classic Goes to the Onion Patch

  Episodes & Galleries RSS Jesse Terry prepares his Alden classic, Abigail for the Thrash to the Onion Patch, the 2022 Newport to Bermuda Race, the iconic American offshore contest. ...

  
• 05.13.2022

  Ep 22 - Story Boats: The Tales They Tell Pt.1

  Episodes & Galleries RSS Mystic Seaport Museum presents "Story Boats: The Tales They Tell", a fascinating collection of historic watercraft and the tales that go with them. From May 28 to August 14, the show presents 18 boats and...

  
• 03.24.2022

  Ep 21 - Carleton Mitchell and the Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe

  Episodes & Galleries RSS Carleton Mitchell, blue water racer, writer, photographer, loved to portray the native designs of the Americas. One of his favorites, the sailing log canoe, is iconic to his home waters of the Chesapeake.A wild concoction...

  
• 02.25.2022

  Ep 20: Model Classic 2.0- Radiosailing Goes Frostbiting

  Episodes & Galleries RSS We visit three radiosailing racing venues to answer the question: "Who frostbites model yachts in NJ? ...

  
• 02.04.2022

  Ep 19 IC Classic- 88 Years of Winter Sailing at the Larchmont YC (Pt II)

  Episodes & Galleries RSS Larchmont Winter Sailing has brought out the best in frostbiting for generations: It's an Ulmer family affair in 2022 ...

  
• 01.20.2022

  Ep 18: IC Classic- 88 Years of Winter Sailing at the Larchmont YC

  Episodes & Galleries RSS Winter sailing pioneer and author of Race Your Boat Right, Arthur Knapp, led the way for modern frostbiting at Larchmont YC. A new kind of racing-cold! ...

  
• 12.17.2021

  Ep 17: Chasing Roosters (Part II)

  Episodes & Galleries RSS EScows, A Cats, Sneakboxes and Duckboats. Part 2 of 2.Barnegat Bay and the sailing haven of Mantoloking are our sites for exploring the home-grown Bay classes, Sneakboxes and Duckboats, timeless designs from the 19th century...

  
• 12.02.2021

  Ep 16: Chasing Roosters (Part 1)

  Episodes & Galleries RSS EScows, A Cats, Sneakboxes and Duckboats. Part 1 of 2.This episode, we go down south to the Jersey Shore, where watermen have plied Barnegat Bay since the European-invasion of the 16th Century. These episodes show...

  
• 10.28.2021

  Ep 15: Herreshoff, Hickman, Hunt: 100 Years of the American Runabout (Pt. II)

  Episodes & Galleries RSS A 1914 design, the Hickman Sea Sled, re-emerges in 1957 via the hand of C Raymond Hunt, as America's iconic runabout.It is the Boston Whaler, 13 footer. ...

  
• 09.20.2021

  Ep 14: Herreshoff, Hickman, Hunt: 100 Years of the American Runabout

  Episodes & Galleries RSS HHH. Herreshoff, Hickman, Hunt. 100 years of the American personal powerboat: the launch, the American runabout, the American speedboat ...

  
• 07.15.2021

  Episode 13: Clem and Jim’s IOD Adventure Pt II

  Episodes & Galleries RSS IOD reborn. The new redone Etesian takes her maiden sail, Newport to Stonington. ...

  
• 05.15.2021

  Episode 12: Clem and Jim’s IOD Adventure

  We help a good friend in his quest for the perfect wooden International One Design (IOD)

  
• 05.06.2021

  Episode 11: J Boats Speaks (Part II)

  In 1977, two brothers channeled Nat Herreshoff and started a boating phenomenon that produced a string of iconic modern keelboats. Bob and Rod Johnstone tell the creation story of JBoats.

  
• 04.15.2021

  Episode 10: J Boats Speaks

  In 1977, two brothers channeled Nat Herreshoff and started a boating phenomenon that produced a string of iconic modern keelboats. Bob and Rod Johnstone tell the creation story of JBoats.

  
• 03.24.2021

  Episode 09: Golden Age of the Sixes (Part II)

  The International Six Metre reaches its design peak with S & S designs like Fun, Goose, Djinn and Llanoria as fear of European conflict postpones international competition until 1947's Seawanhaka Cup

  
• 03.11.2021

  Episode 08: Golden Age of the Sixes

  In the Golden Age of the Sixes, designers, builders, owners, and skippers strive for the winning package as Seawanhaka becomes the epicenter of international Sixes competition

  
• 02.25.2021

  Episode 07: Day of the Sixes

  The Second International Rule and the British American Cup ignites international competition between designers and sailors alike in the Six Metre. Class. Designers like Olin J Stephens arrive on the scene.

  
• 02.05.2021

  Episode 06: Dawn of the Sixes: Seawanhaka and the International Six Meter

  The International Six Meter, with its rich history of match and team racing, traces its roots back to America's oldest yacht club, founded 1871, Seawanhaka Corinthian in Oyster Bay, New York

  
• 12.04.2020

  Episode 05: S & S Twins: Finisterre and Fidelio

  The story of Finisterre, the famous three-time winner of the Bermuda Race under legendary yachtsman Carleton Mitchell, pioneer of cruising the West Indies and her twin design, Fidelio, built two years later, a gem of a classic design, winner from...

  
• 10.29.2020

  Episode 04: Man and Their Dinghies

  We go throughout New England in search of the perfect little boat. Featuring a talk with the people behind the most famous dinghy brand of all time, Dyer Boats.

  
• 09.01.2020

  Episode 03: Model Classic Instant Classic

  Model boats have captivated serious sailors for centuries.From the 1920s to today, model yachting in vintage wooden craft has become the fast growing field of radiosailing with high tech, carbon fiber sparred performance miniature yachts. We capture the latest multi-colored...

  
• 06.30.2020

  Episode 02: Alerion Past, Present, Future Perfect

  The personal boat of Captain Nat Herreshoff has taken on many identities over more than 100 years. That includes being the design of choice for the largest classic wooden keelboat fleet in America

  
• 05.08.2020

  Episode 01: Dolphin

  Dolphin, the winningest boat in American history, has a history of colorful owners since its 1914 birth . Her skippers tell the tale of this Newport 29 and its siblings alive today