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 […]

Limber Holes and Love

This is the second of the memories about sailing on the Eleanor from R.S.B. of Rutland, Vermont. Climbing into the far reaches of the hull to clean out the limber holes when I was 14 taught me a lesson that I wrote about in my high school English class. In the spring there was always […]

Pushing the Limits of the Hudson

I am writing in hopes of providing you with a personal relationship with the Racing Sloop Eleanor.  It is sad that nowadays stories and history can be lost as the speed of information technology and the internet allow time to race by us at a rate never imagined when the Eleanor was built in 1903. […]