A Wooden Beauty - before there was fibreglass.

[HenryC]

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.