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Celebrate America Bristol Style!

 
Come by Land or Sea to our waterfront.  Bristol's 3rd and 4th of July Celebration at HMM welcomes The Ravers, The Ancient Mariners Dixieland Band, and a whole lot of family fun! 

 

Last year we welcomed over 450 guests to campus for the party on the 3rd and over 200 guests joined us to watch the parade from our Museum vantage point.  The 2nd annual party is shaping up to be another one for the ages.  

  

 
 

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Volunteer Spotlight  

 

A big THANK YOU to the many volunteers who helped with hundreds of hours of their time to help the Museum open for the 2013 Season.

 

John Cobb and his team have launched floats, cleaned-up the waterfront, and prepared boats and moorings in record time.  The waterfront tent is up and already in use for special events.

 

Meanwhile, the Reliance Model Project continues in Building 28 with checking and placement of hardware on the deck and spars.  
 

 

Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and the America's Cup:  Part Eleven- Revisiting the Launch of RELIANCE: Arson and Skirts

THE CURATOR'S LOG

 

All the news articles of the April 11, 1903 launching credited the syndicate and the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company for a very successful and on-time event.  Two articles differed from the rest by relating tales of behind the scenes events.

  

One under the headlines, "ATTEMPT TO BURN RELIANCE" reported "a leak out of Bristol" that someone had tried to start a fire in the wood south construction shop where RELIANCE was being readied. Late the Monday evening before the launching workmen found a candle burning in a socket on a heap of greasy overalls.

 

 

The 6th Classic Yacht Symposium

Call for Papers/Save the Date

 

May 2-4, 2014 - Herreshoff Marine Museum, Bristol RI

 

 

Interested authors are invited to present a paper on a subject relative to excellence in classic yacht design, restoration or use. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

 

* Classic Yacht design: analytical & test basis for the designs; comparisons to current practice and technology.

 

* Classic Yacht restoration/replication and use; both power and sail.

 

* Adaptation of classic designs to modern materials.

 

* Herreshoff Centennial Yachts - Herreshoff designs celebrating 100 years - H12�, BB 25, Newport 29

 

June 28th, 2013 - 300 word abstract submittal and by July 12th the authors will be informed of their acceptance. In October the drafts must be submitted and a selection of the submissions will be presented. The final submission date will be December 20th, 2013.

 

For more information, please contact j.palmieri@herreshoff.org

 

Sailing Heals Invites Herreshoff Members to Take Part
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Sailing Heals, a 501c3 non-profit that brings cancer patients and their caregivers out for healing sails courtesy of volunteer Host Captains, is busy with their second full season of operation. Last year Sailing Heals hosted 230 guests (cancer patients and their caregivers) in ports in Massachusetts, New York City, Rhode Island and Miami, FL. This year, they expect to increase that number as they expand their fleet of Host Captains and number of yacht clubs in

the program.  

 

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This Week in RELIANCE History June 16- 22, 2013

110 Years Ago- RELIANCE and the 1903 America's Cup

June 17, 1903 -  
RELIANCE broke her top mast just after starting a race with CONSTITUTION
and COLUMBIA off Larchmont while competing for  "The Star of the Sea Trophy"
given by the Larchmont Yacht Club Commodore.

 

 

 

  

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Mike Mirman holding a model
of a rumrunner which would have carried boxes of whiskey. Photo by Andrew Dickerman of the Providence Journal.
  

Be sure to check out this gallery published by the Providence Journal. The gallery focuses on one of our Reliance volunteers, Mike Mirman, and his built-to-scale boat models. Mirman is currently working on the brass fittings for the RELIANCE project.

 

To view the gallery, click here.

 

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Herreshoff Marine Museum

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