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 […]

Nathaniel S. Wilson – Sailmaker

Nat is a Master sailmaker, rigger and sail designer based in East Boothbay, Maine. He is most well known for building sails for large traditional sailing vessels in the United States and abroad. Nat is very excited about designing and building sails for Eleanor as sailboat Eleanor is being restored rather than being replicated. To […]

Saving the Sailboat Eleanor

Published in the Register Star, January 27, 2016 p.A11 William Burrows, four year member and volunteer, stands beside the new deadwood for Eleanor.  The construction of the deadwood, designed after the 1903 deadwood, was engineered by Burrows and took several months to make.  The new deadwood is constructed of four slabs of White Oak.  The […]

End of Another Year

It is a thrilling to watch as the Hudson River Historic Boat Restoration and Sailing Society community volunteers steadily restore Eleanor to her former self. When she sails again on the Hudson River she will be there for the general public’s enjoyment and education: an intimate class room on the water where people will learn […]

The desire to learn how to sail

One important goal of Hudson River Historic Boat’s mission, often overlooked when we are talking about ourselves during this period of intense focus on reconstruction of Eleanor, is to “serve as a resource for the general public who . . . desire to learn how to sail. Member Pete Tenerowicz on a teaching sail with […]

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 […]