Holmes Hole had a full week of racing. On Thursday evening, 10 boats sailed the Vineyard Haven triangle from East Chop to West Chop and then back home to nun 6 in the harbor. The reverse course was chosen to take advantage of the strong southerly wind. David McDonough’s Trinity won with time to spare, […]
There has been a strong turnout for Holmes Hole races this summer. Boats of all sizes and makes are regularly joining our races, including a couple of boats coming across the sound from Falmouth. This past week brought another bumper crop of racers. Thursday evening, 15 boats raced the triangle around Vineyard Haven Harbor from […]
It was a busy week for Holmes Hole sailing, with two competitive races and great turnout. A slate of 16 boats showed up for our Thursday evening race under blue skies with moderate winds. We had a cross-section of crafts, with seven boats over 35 feet, three V.H. Yacht Club Sonars, three Alerion 28s, and […]
Thomas Dresser sets his new book, “Martha’s Vineyard in the Roaring Twenties: Radicals and Rascals,” securely within the larger context of world history. It offers us a sweeping, micro/macro perspective of the decade sitting between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the Great Depression. The chapters are not sequential, nor […]
The Island has had its share of colorful names. There was Major Pain, the Chilmark lawyer who fought unsuccessfully to move our county seat out of Edgartown; Mayor Blood, who gave us the name “Cottage City”; and Captain Pound, the pirate who plagued Holmes Hole Harbor. There was Harry Legg, the Helenian carpenter; Dr. Lynch, […]