Holmes Hole had two competitive races this past week. Thursday night, 10 boats sailed the triangle in Vineyard Haven Harbor, with a windward starting leg in 10 knots of southwesterly winds. Frank Sutula’s Soma Holiday won the cup 47 seconds ahead of Beck Colson’s Silhouette, who was 15 seconds ahead of Mike Powers’ Artful Dodger […]
Deborah Lewis was born about 1730 in Yarmouth, the daughter of John and Thankful Lewis. She came to the Island of Martha’s Vineyard with her parents when she was about 3 years old. In the 1730s, the settler population of the Island was less than 1,200 people, and had only recently surpassed the Vineyard’s Wampanoag […]
What a glorious Sunday afternoon on the water. Seven boats of assorted sizes came out for a blustery 10-mile dash out into the Sound. There was a bit of a pileup at the starting line, but Beckett Colson in Silhouette strategically held back for 15 seconds or so, ending up to windward of the pack […]
Sunday was an exhilarating day to be out in Vineyard Sound, punctuated by lightning strikes in the southern skies, and compounded by 13-knot Southwest winds and four-foot seas, which gradually built over the afternoon. Seven boats joined in this challenge. It was the first Sound course this season, with a zigzag route across the Sound […]
It’s Labor Day, 1929, at the New Bedford, Martha’s Vineyard & Nantucket Steamboat company wharf in Oak Bluffs. The last steamer has departed for the night. The terminal staff has gone home after a busy three-day weekend; 4,000 passengers passed through that day alone. A shadowy figure or is it two? climbs unseen […]