Description: "America's Cup" racers at Northeast Harbor. Some of the "America's Cup" defenders were built and maintained in Stonington and carried from there. Part of N.Y. Yacht Club visit?
Description: Northeast Harbor Fleet host International One Design (IOD) races. Colored photographs by Brundage and Litchfield. Published in Down East Magazine, August 1983.
Description: Copy of R. Lunt article appearing in book "By Land and By Sea; Studies in the Folk-lore of Work and Leisure. ( R. D Abrahams, ed.) Dedicated to Horace Beck on his 65th birthday.
Description: Handwritten notes of Frank Spurling recounting his life as a fisherman beginning when he was 9 years old. He writes of sailing the Wheelwright yacht for many years.
Description: Ted Spurling Sr. recounts sailing tales of Capt. Melitiah and Caroline (Stanley) Richardson of Great Cranberry Island. Son Peter continued sailing after his father's death. Cranberry Isles woman made a quilt for Caroline, now owned by Bobby Gray.
Description: Luder-16 racing on MDI makes a comeback after 30 years. Owners include Alec Goriansky, Jane Zirnkilton, and Alan McIlhenny. The boats were built in the 1930's by Luders Marine Construction Co. in CT.
Description: Framed, colored, 8x6" photograph of Mary Cabot Wheelwright, Helen Allen, and "Cappie", with oars, in a rowboat off Hog Island. August 1955
Description: Framed, b/w, 9x14" photograph of pictures of Samuel E. Morison at the wheel of his yawl (a) and a full photograph of the yawl Emily Marshall (b).