Lecture: Thomas Townsend and Ken Murphy, “The Survival of CIRRUS: A Maine Icon Reaches Home” at Mystic Seaport

On December 12 join us for the third and final 2024 Fall Lecture Series presentation and hear about the progress of the upcoming Wells Boat Hall. Learn how the legendary Herreshoff yawl CIRRUS is brought back to gleaming life after a two year refurbishment. Led by marine carpenter Thomas Townsend and then-owner Ken Murphy, the effort to revive the forty-four foot 1930 Fishers Island 31 was supported by a passionate community in Mystic and in what was the vessel’s home for over eight decades, Brooklin, Maine. CIRRUS is now back on a mooring in Brooklin, as part of the Mystic Seaport Museum Yachts on Exhibit program.

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