Bill Tait is an old college chum of mine. In 2007 I wrote a feature article for Good Old Boat magazine, about him and his boat, Sinisterre, a replica of the classic 50s racing yawl Finisterre, the only boat to ever win the Newport-Bermuda Race three times in a row; a feat which has never since been repeated.
The article is now online at the Sparkman & Stephens Association website.
http://www.sparkmanstephens.info/doc/37620x5KkvetXwD3Ys3qm1HPh68LYBXs.pdf
As a bonus, this file also contains an article by Ted Brewer about Carleton Mitchell and the original Finisterre.