Dear Friend of CHARIAD: Herb Loeffler passed away last Monday. Herb has been a very special friend to me and to the entire CHARIAD community. A memorial service will be held TODAY at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum at 4 PM. Please come if you can. Larz Anderson Auto Museum | America's Oldest Car Collection 15 Newton St, Brookline, MA 02445 Herb was a car nut as well as a [...]
Dear Friend of CHARIAD: CHARIAD won the Scituate Invitational Regatta yesterday on lumpy seas with 11 – 13 knot winds. The race was a 2 mile windward/leeward twice around course in winds out of the NE. Something of a confusing start because we did not realized that the committee was starting the A & B classes together until a minute before what we thought was the A class start. We [...]
Dear Friend of CHARIAD: I have had so much going on that I have not been able to keep you up to date with a very exciting sailing year for CHARIAD and the CHARIAD team. Here is a quick update. Headline: CHARIAD finishes Last in 1st Race & 2nd in 2nd Race. When a casual friend learns that I competed in a sailboat race, the next statement is “Oh, did you win the [...]
Dear Friend of CHARIAD: The Mighty CHARIAD was launched last week. After a super effort by her crew, she migrated in a deep fog last Saturday from Beverly to Marblehead. For the record, both Beverly and Marblehead claim to be the birthplace of the American Navy. In an earlier note, I included a picture of a sign in a display case at the Navy History Museum at Annapolis saying [...]
Dear Friend of CHARIAD: We have our seasonal rituals – Thanksgiving, Christmas, 4th of July. April is a ritual month for me. Boat work Crew recruitment I have to share one last image for our Friends who are not in Boston. The temperature is mostly in the 40s and we had a lot of rain last week. Most of the snow is gone though there are still piles everywhere. This car [...]
Dear Friend of CHARIAD: This is the time of year when the days are getting longer – daylight savings time just started – and we tell ourselves that the warm days of summer and sailing must surely be near. We try to visualize gliding across a sparkling sea driven by soft afternoon winds with a cool rum drink in hand. With all of the snow, ice, frozen pipes, no [...]
Dear Friend of CHARIAD: This has to be a teaser note because I am still wobbling from the last three days of sailing and rushing to leave for the Buzzards Bay Regatta on Friday. Beringer Race We have had three races. We had to drop out of the first because of a mechanical problem. The 2nd race was the Beringer Race from Marblehead to Provincetown. Beringer is an overnight [...]
Dear Friend of CHARIAD: Tomorrow, Friday, night CHARIAD races from Marblehead to Provincetown. This will be our first real race – meaning we are actually racing for the whole race. We went out this past Sunday for a long race to the entrance of Boston Harbor and back but were not able to fly the spinnaker on the 8 mile leg back because of a mechanical breakdown with the [...]
Dear Friend & Colleague: Over the last four years, I have had three major surgeries, a huge commitment to the Harvard Business School alumni organization leadership and the de-masting of the my sailboat in hurricane Sandy last fall. This year has seen a transition to no surgeries, passing on the HBS responsibilities, and a phoenix like re-birth of “the mighty CHARIAD.” I have finally had the time to take on [...]
Dear Friends of CHARIAD: Fall is a transition season from summer to winter. Both sadness for the passing of summer and wonder at the beauty on our New England fall colors and the brisk autumn days. Saturday was CHARIAD’s Annual Fall Migration South. The gang of crew who did the migration from Marblehead to Weymouth could not have had a more beautiful fall day. I am attaching a picture [...]
