1979 Marion to Bermuda Race

    Recollections of the Navigator or Things we shouldnt/a hadnt/a ougtnt/a done   WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS ANYWAY? For the most part we didn’t do that bad. We finished 99th overall (out of +/- 140), none of us had ever been on an ocean race before, and the weather was terrible. Everything considered it […]

We sail too!

Not all of our members are sailors — yet!  Many of our dedicated volunteers who show up regularly on Thursday nights to restore Eleanor are in it for the experience — learning how to put a boat together, enjoying the comradeship of working on the boat, and looking forward to the comradeship of sailing the […]

A New Video

Click here and scroll to 4:22 for the Eleanor segment And if you haven’t seen Jim Kricker’s video click here. Who is Jim Kricker?    

Ogeemah and the Librarian

George Dealy, a HRHB member, recently sent us a photo of Ogeemah, his family’s sailboat, built in 1903, the same year as Eleanor, although he didn’t know that at the time. His great grandfather bought her and his grandfather and great uncle sailed her. George has a few trophy cups that she had won and […]

Eleanor’s Solo Sail

Do you remember Hurricane Floyd? He passed through the Catskill/Hudson area in September 1999 and caused over 16 million dollars worth of damage in New York alone. The letter below, one of many written by Louise Bliss to family members, the children of Eleanor’s third captain Phillip S. Egan, updates them on the journey and […]

Stalled

A surprise email in our inbox on December 22 informed us that we have to vacate our work site by the first of the New Year. We’re moving. Not far, but it’s enough to make us change course for about a month. Four nights worth of valuable Thursday volunteer hours will now be diverted to […]