Today's Sail - AMARYLLIS

It's incredible to think that the next America's Cup, an event that was once governed by the designs of Nathaniel Herreshoff, will be sailed in mutli-hulls. In 1876, "Captain Nat" saw the speed, excitement and promise in these designs and launched Amaryllis - a 30 foot catamaran. He sailed Amaryllis from Bristol to New York in 14 hours (a record) and then entered her in a race. Nobody took exception to this "outlandish" design until she handily beat the entire fleet and he was consequently banned from racing it.

So Today's Sail goes out to Amaryllis and the Wizard of Bristol. A visionary pair that is still influencing the sport of sailing today.

SailFast Fact - Hereshoff received the first U.S. patent on catamaran sailboats in 1876

If I could buy one thing...

The quote of the day at the Newport Boat Show was,"If I can only buy one thing it would be a SailFAST t-shirt" and the young man who visited us throughout the day, mulling over which shirt would be the lucky one: chose our classic original style:



This year's show was a blast with decent weather all in all, little bit of rain, scary clouds looming about to the West but who could complain?! We had live music, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream at every corner and talked to sailors all day long!



The morning and end of day calm was always a nice reprieve though, with end of day being best...now if we could only have Regatta Ginger Beer and Gosling's Rum as our booth mates, we'd supply the ice and cups!! Dark n' Stormies all around!!



Also, thank you to all who participated in the Newport Leukemia Cup Regatta this weekend and to those who came out to the Newport Boat Show and supported the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society by purchasing comfy SailFast gear!

Cheers!