Preview: Restoring MINK, a 1914 Buzzards Bay 25, Part 1 – An Uncommon Approach

10 Responses So Far to “Restoring MINK, a 1914 Buzzards Bay 25, Part 1 – An Uncommon Approach”

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  Bob Wallace says:

  Hi Guys- Great Boats, great series. A small point from the start: The Beverley Yacht Club at the time here was not in Marion , Mass, but over on the north Shore of Wings Neck in Pocasset. More interesting was to this story is Robert Emmons who had been an early important part of the start of the Club which grew out of his own Tobey Club on Tobeys Island at the head of Buzzards Bay. Robert Emmons is important because as a yachtsman he was the original customer for N G Herresoff’s Buzzards Bay Boys Boats!.(he ordered 4 and they were personally delivered by NGH) In 1914 the Cape Cod Canal was started and the original channel ran right in front of the Yacht club and was disruptive to the club racing. A number of the members voted to move the Club’s base to Marion, across the Bay.

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    David Tew says:

    A bit more abut the Beverly YC:

    “The Beverly Yacht Club was founded in 1872 by a group of sailors from Marblehead, Massachusetts’ Eastern Yacht Club who wanted to race small boats under 30 feet on the waterline. Edward “Ned” Burgess, the club’s founding member and first commodore, was best known as the designer of three successful America’s Cup defenders — Puritan , Mayflower , and Volunteer — in the late 1800s. Ned was an active racer who started the “wet pants league” of small boat racing. The club had no official clubhouse for the first 23 years.

    Within ten years of its founding, the club had so successfully championed small boat racing that more sailors from the south shore and Buzzards Bay had joined the club. In 1882 and 1883 the BYC hosted what was believed at the time to be the largest union regatta recorded in America, with some 113 and 171 small and large boats participating.

    In 1895 the club moved to Pocasset and in 1913 to Marion, a colonial-era town known for its shipyards and salt works, and in the 19th century its whaling fleet.

    Today, the Beverly Yacht Club shares duties with the New Bedford Yacht Club in hosting the annual Buzzards Bay Regatta, which began in 1972 and today is the largest multi-class regatta in the country, drawing over 450 boats and 1200 sailors across fifteen different classes, organized and run by over 200 volunteers during the event’s three day weekend

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  bill wilson says:

  Very interesting. Hoping to pick up some ideas that might work on restoration of my 1966 Tartan 27. Assume she has a centerboard. Looking forward to that part of the video. Need to restore my board, which is steel center with fiberglass around. I’ve thought of making a whole new board, possible wood, sheathed in fiberglass.

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  Neo Sovereign says:

  Am I overlooking the Sailing aboard Mink videos?

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    Steve Stone says:

    Hi Neo. We hope to release a new series aboard MINK in the fall.

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  Daniel Curley says:

  Such an example of the blend of today’s love of a classic boat with master builder/restoration — thank

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  Ronald Harr says:

  Thanks!

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  David Tew says:

  I like the halyard boxes at the forward corners of the cockpit!

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  Ron Spellman says:

  I am only getting bit’s and pieces of the videos.
  Is this normal or do you have video’s of full length?
  Ron

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    Steve Stone says:

    Hi Ron. You’ll want to click “sign in” at the top right to make sure you’re signed in as a member. If you’re not signed in, you’ll see only short previews of the videos and posts.