years with an all-volunteer crew. She was hauled out in 2013 in anticipation of repairs, which were begun in 2015. Nearly all of the ship’s frames, planks, and structural timbers were replaced, as well as some decking and a portion of the keel. The $400,000 restoration took place at the Riverport Wooden Boat School at the Hudson River Maritime Museum in Kingston, NY, and was completed in August of this year. (Beacon Sloop Club, POB 527, Beacon, NY 12508; www.beaconsloopclub.org) ...
Restoration work has been completed on the sloop Woody Guthrie, companion vessel of the Hudson River sloop Clearwater. Built in 1978, Woody Guthrie was Sloop Woody Guthrie, October 2017, on its first public sail since its restoration.
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the US Naval Academy sailing program. Every autumn, the Naval Academy hosts intercollegiate and service academy teams in a series of regattas onboard the Navy’s 44-foot sloops. The culminating event, the Kennedy Cup, is the Intercollegiate Sailing Association’s (ICSA) national big boat championship. Castelli, long a supporter of the competitive sailing program at the Academy, has completed a series of five watercolors capturing spirit of this iconic Chesapeake Bay regatta. Fifty limitededition prints of Bringing the Wind, which depicts the fleet of Navy 44s on the downwind leg of the “K-Cup,” were donated by the artist; all proceeds will directly benefit the Naval Academy’s sailing program and its competitive and leadership development programs. The Naval Academy Sailing Foundation is a 501(c)3 charitable corporation, chartered in the state of Maryland in 1973. Its sole function is to further the mission of the US Naval Academy, primarily through direct support to its sail training program. In its fortyfour-year history, the Sailing Foundation has provided more than 200 racing yachts to the Academy under no-cost bareboat charters to support midshipmen’s athletic excellence and character and leadership development under sail. (www. navalacademysailingfoundation.org) ...
designed by Cyrus Hamlin, the naval architect who designed Clearwater, with the same overall lines, rigging, and sail plan, but on a smaller scale—47 feet overall, in comparison with Clearwater’s 106 feet. Pete and Toshi Seeger, the sloop’s original owners, donated her to the Beacon Sloop Club in Beacon, New York, which has sailed and maintained the vessel for the past forty
Bringing the Wind, a signed, limited-edition print by Marc Castelli, sells for $600, with 100% of the proceeds supporting the US Naval Academy sailing program.
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