Herreshoff: American Masterpieces – The Cape Cod Maritime Museum

Event date: Saturday, October 29, 2016 – 2:00pm Event address: Cape Cod Maritime Museum, 135 South Street, MA 02601 Join Titcomb’s Bookshop at the Cape Cod Maritime Museum on Saturday, October 29 at 2:00pm for a very exciting event as all celebrate the publication of a lavishly illustrated and insightfully documented new book on Herreshoff …

Mystic Seaport – William A. Baker Award

Mystic, Conn. (October 13, 2016) — Mystic Seaport announces it is honoring the Pacific Class owners and the San Diego Yacht Club with the 2016 William A. Baker Award. The award is given to promote the awareness and appreciation of fine examples of one-design classes or boats of like kind, and to foster faithful preservation …

Man lounges on frying pan tower during hurricane

By Associated Press – Richard Neal and his fiancée rode out Hurricane Matthew on a platform 30 miles off the North Carolina coast. The platform is part of an old Coast Guard light station that was abandoned in 2004. After the light station was abandoned, Neal purchased it for his vacation home. Read more….   …

Hurricane Matthew Changes Northeast Florida Landscape

A new inlet was carved along the Florida coast by Hurricane Matthew. Between St. Augustine and Palm Coast, a small new inlet was carved out by the powerful water pounding the coast. The new inlet can be seen in this before-and-after image. A NOAA aircraft taking aerial photography after the storm this weekend illustrated what …