Call of the Running Tide

Mark Clarke, a friend and sometime sailor on the Eleanor, wrote about Captain Phil Egan in this tribute published in the Register Star in August 1998. Mark was an English teacher at Taconic Hills Central School District and crewed on one of Eleanor’s OpSail adventures. Recently, when we were in Washington D.C., my wife and […]

Operation Sail 1986 — excerpts from the Log

The following is based on a young Hudsonian’s entries in the Eleanor’s Log on his first sailing adventure.  One of the big goals of this restoration is to get Eleanor back into the water so that she can provide young and old their first sailing experiences. Sailing is more than just feeling the wind in […]

Catskill to Kingston

This is the third of the memories about sailing on the Eleanor from R.S.B. of Rutland, Vermont. I was crew for the Eleanor on an overnight sail from Catskill to Kingston, NY in the summer of one of my college years. As we loaded the boat Pop fell on the gangplank to the dock that […]

Great Article in the Almanac Weekly by Debra Bresnan

Edwardian party to help fund restoration of 1903 sloop Eleanor Posted by Debra Bresnan on May 10, 2015 Louise Bliss spends her days and nights fulfilling the responsibilities that you normally expect from the leader of a non-profit organization: grantwriting, public speaking, administrative duties…but wait – is that her scraping paint off the hull of […]

Reconstruction Begins!

Center of keelson with temporary bolts Less than a year ago I wrote an article for Boating on the Hudson about the volunteers who are reconstructing the Eleanor. At that time the work was approaching a huge turning point. Eleanor was just about disassembled and the workers were anxious to start working with “new” wood […]