Herreshoff Marine Museum

Programs: Museum activities and admissions: the herreshoff marine museum and america's cup hall of fame are dedicated to the inspiration and education of the public through the presentation of the history and innovative work of the herreshoff manufacturing company and the america's cup competition. Visitors to the museum have the opportunity to explore the world's largest collection of any one naval architect's life work. The genius of the herreshoff brothers is unsurpassed in its cominbation of business acumen and engineer excellence.

waterfront and education programs: includes the seamanship program, lectures, the mentorship program in classic boat maintenance and educational partnerships. The mentorship program in classic boat maintenance provides a hands-on experience in helping to care for the museum's active-use collection of watercraft. The seamanship program's primary goals are to teach sailing skills and water awareness, to instill a love of the marine environment and to create lifelong sailors.

program events: these events include presentations on subjects relative to the excellence in classic yacht restoration, replication, or use; adaptation of classic designs to modern materials and the technical details of rigging, fitting, powering and rating rules. The event's proceedings (the assemblage of papers and discussions providing during the symposium as well as noteworthy papers not presented) are distributed to hundreds of builders, designers, owners and enthusiasts who attend, as well as being offered for sale through the herreshoff marine museum, the society of naval architects and marine engineers and online internationally. The programming includes membership communications as well as general admission to the museum.

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