Conversations with Classic Boats

by Tom Darling

A podcast about classic boat designs and the stories behind them. Hosted by Tom Darling

Episodes

Ep 22 - Story Boats: The Tales They Tell Pt.1

30m · Published 13 May 14:02

Mystic Seaport Museum presents "Story Boats: The Tales They Tell", a fascinating collection of historic watercraft and the tales that go with them. From May 28 to August 14, the show presents eighteen boats & the intimate stories and adventures of the people behind them.

Ep 21 - Carleton Mitchell and the Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe

22m · Published 24 Mar 14:30

Carleton Mitchell, blue water racer, writer, photographer, loved to portray the native designs of the Americas. One of his favorites, the sailing log canoe, is iconic to his home waters of the Chesapeake. A wild concoction of wood and canvas, the log canoe has skimmed across the Bay for almost 150 years.

Ep 20: Model Classic 2.0- Radiosailing Goes Frostbiting

41m · Published 25 Feb 17:01

We visit three radiosailing racing venues to answer the question:" Who frostbites model yachts in NJ?

Ep 19 IC Classic- 88 Years of Winter Sailing at the Larchmont YC (Pt II)

40m · Published 04 Feb 16:30

Larchmont Winter Sailing has brought out the best in frostbiting for generations. This episode features two exclusive interviews from Crissie Klingler and Butch Ulmer who talk about their history frostbiting in Larchmont

Ep 18: IC Classic- 88 Years of Winter Sailing at the Larchmont YC

37m · Published 20 Jan 14:15

Winter sailing pioneer and author of Race Your Boat Right, Arthur Knapp, led the way for modern frostbiting at Larchmont YC. A new kind of racing-cold!

Ep 17: Chasing Roosters (Part II)

33m · Published 17 Dec 22:34

Barnegat Bay and the sailing haven of Mantoloking are our sites for exploring the home-grown Bay classes, Sneakboxes and Duckboats, timeless designs from the 19th century brought forward to the modern running of the Duckboat World Championships

Ep 16: Chasing Roosters (Part 1)

55m · Published 02 Dec 16:12

This episode, we go down south to the Jersey Shore, where watermen have plied Barnegat Bay since the European-invasion of the 16th Century. These episodes show a all star cast of the boats that Tom fell in love with: The EBoat or EScow, A Cat, Sneakbox and the Duckboat.

Ep 15: Herreshoff, Hickman, Hunt: 100 Years of the American Runabout (Pt. II)

34m · Published 28 Oct 20:01

A 1914 design, the Hickman Sea Sled, re-emerges in 1957 via the hand of C Raymond Hunt, as America's iconic runabout. It is the Boston Whaler, 13 footer.

Ep 14: Herreshoff, Hickman, Hunt: 100 Years of the American Runabout

36m · Published 20 Sep 20:06

HHH. Herreshoff, Hickman, Hunt. 100 years of the American personal powerboat: the launch, the American runabout, the American speedboat

Episode 13: Clem and Jim’s IOD Adventure Pt II

30m · Published 15 Jul 14:30

IOD reborn. The new redone Etesian takes her maiden sail, Newport to Stonington.

Conversations with Classic Boats has 32 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 16:46:30. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 1st 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 20th, 2024 04:26.