Aug 3, Bristol, RI

We walked around E. Greenwich, RI. this morning and found it to be a nice town built on the hill above the waterfront. Found some fire hydrants painted as characters. Cute.






Pretty day but hazy on the water. Almost flat calm with the wind coming up a bit after lunch. We motored about 5 miles to Bristol, RI and are staying on a mooring at the Herreshoff Marine Museum just to the south of the town of Bristol.





The Herreschoff Museum is the home of the former Herreshoff Boat Works that built lots of boats from sailing ships (including America's Cup racing boats) to torpedo boats used as early as the Spanish American War. Herreshoff was founded in 1878 and made famous by two brothers, John Brown Herreshoff, who was older and blind and who acted as president and treasurer and Nathaniel Green Herreshoff who was designer and superintendent. Nat designed and supervised the building of the six boats that won the America's Cup for the New Your Yacht Club six times from 1893 to 1920. In 1903 the winner was the "Reliance" at 143 feet with a 20 foot draft and a crew of 66 and the largest boat ever to race for the America's Cup. It carried 16,000 square feet of sail. All the boats were built from models and not from blueprints. The museum is also home to a large amount of America's Cup memorabilia.

We are not happy with our mooring as a one foot chop came up in the bay and our boat is "bouncy" on the mooring. The launch hours are 10 am to 5 pm and not long enough to accommodate us in coming and going to sight see and have a nice dinner. So we have a nice dinner aboard and decide to leave the mooring at the Herreschoof Museum after lunch the next day.