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July 2021
Herreshoff Marine Museum Summer Jazz Series on the Waterfront
Our friends at the Herreshoff Marine Museum & America’s Cup Hall of Fame are expanding their community programming this year with a series of four Jazz concerts by talented local musicians. These two-hour concerts include free access to the museum, with food and drink available to purchase. To learn more, contact Ted Regan at [email protected] or visit herreshoff.org.
Find out more »August 2021
Herreshoff Marine Museum Summer Jazz Series on the Waterfront
Our friends at the Herreshoff Marine Museum & America’s Cup Hall of Fame are expanding their community programming this year with a series of four Jazz concerts by talented local musicians. These two-hour concerts include free access to the museum, with food and drink available to purchase. To learn more, contact Ted Regan at [email protected] or visit herreshoff.org.
Find out more »Watch Hill 15 Reception & Celebration
The Ocean House in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, a Presenting Sponsor of the Herreshoff Marine Museum’s Golden Jubilee, hosts this event honoring the late James “Ding” Schoonmaker for his dedication to the Herreshoff Watch Hill 15 fleet. Guest of Honor John “Hap” Fauth will be celebrated as the leader of the New York Yacht Club American Magic syndicate, the 36th America’s Cup Challenger of Record. To learn more, contact Ted Regan at [email protected] or visit herreshoff.org/50th/
Find out more »Herreshoff Marine Museum Summer Jazz Series on the Waterfront
Our friends at the Herreshoff Marine Museum & America’s Cup Hall of Fame are expanding their community programming this year with a series of four Jazz concerts by talented local musicians. These two-hour concerts include free access to the museum, with food and drink available to purchase. To learn more, contact Ted Regan at [email protected] or visit herreshoff.org.
Find out more »Herreshoff Golden Jubilee Regatta and Rendezvous
As part of their 50th anniversary celebration, our friends at the Herreshoff Marine Museum & America’s Cup Hall of Fame in Bristol, Rhode Island are hosting three days of racing as well as a first-time cruising event. All original Herreshoff boats are invited, along with reproduction and spirit of tradition boats, the designs of L. Francis Herreshoff and Halsey C. Herreshoff, and America’s Cup 12 Metres. To learn more, contact Ted Regan at [email protected] or visit herreshoff.org/50th/
Find out more »September 2021
Herreshoff Golden Jubilee Waterfront Gala
This event, on the Herreshoff Marine Museum’s historic waterfront, includes the dedication of the Resolute Syndicate monument, a centennial commemoration of the 1920 America’s Cup defender (Capt. Nat’s last yacht designed to win the Cup). To learn more, contact Ted Regan at [email protected] or visit herreshoff.org/50th/
Find out more »November 2021
Herreshoff Golden Jubilee Closing Celebration and America’s Cup Hall of Fame Salute
This formal dinner at the New York Yacht Club Model Room in New York City takes place among the most impressive yacht model collection in the world. Ushering in the 30th Anniversary of the America’s Cup Hall of Fame in 2022, the event salutes the Herreshoff Marine Museum’s Next 50 vision as it evolves into an educational campus for the next generation of problem solvers. To learn more, contact Ted Regan at [email protected] or visit herreshoff.org/50th/
Find out more »January 2022
The 2022 Moby-Dick Marathon
This year’s reading of Herman Melville’s classic will be entirely virtual, but that won’t stop literary aficionados, school children, and everyone in between from traveling back in time to accompany narrator Ishmael on the epic hunt for the elusive white whale. The event features the main 25-hour read-a-thon on Saturday and Sunday, with fun Melville-inspired activities, opportunities to chat with scholars from the Melville Society Cultural Project, a Melville-inspired trivia game, and more. The Marathon will be…
Find out more »Guided Tours of the Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard & Watercraft Hall
Ever wondered what’s behind the ropes at Mystic Seaport Museum’s Preservation Shipyard? Or what is inside the Watercraft Hall – open to the public only a few times per year? Join us this winter for small group guided tours of the Shipyard’s machine shop, rigging loft, and interact with our skilled shipwrights as they describe the work they’re doing on this winter’s projects, including Mayflower II, Pilot, Sherman Zwicker, Star, and more. Following the shipyard tour, join a guided tour of the…
Find out more »Seal-Spotting & Birding Cruises with The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk
These invigorating 2.5-hour cruises aboard the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk’s hybrid-electric research vessel Spirit of the Sound™, seek out the harbor seals and gray seals that migrate down into Long Island Sound each winter. Aquarium educators will point out these federally protected marine mammals and talk about their natural histories. These cruises also give birders unique “on-the-water” access to see and photograph visiting winter waterfowl such as buffleheads, mergansers, Brant geese and long-tailed ducks. Binoculars will be…
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