Henry Young

I learned to sail on the Toms River and Barnegut Bay in New Jersey beginning in the summer of 1958 on a Barnegut Bay Sneakbox and traditional cat boat. Served in the US Navy aboard USS Samuel B Roberts (DD 823) and USS Detroit (AOE 4) as a Quartermaster. Owned three boats, 16' catboat built by John D. Little, a 25' Wianno Senior built in 1923 by Crosby Yachts in Osterville, MA and restored by myself in the late 1970's and a 40' Rhodes Offshore 40. Following 26 years of ownership, I sold Siskiwit to Don Brannon in 2015. Siskiwit's home port is presently Mobile, Alabama.

Thoughts on the wind and waves

Whenever I leave a harbor, all the small worries that occupy my mind fade away, and the clock that dominates on land ceases to exist. Underway, a time of dreaming begins, a time when hours pass as guests dangle feet over the stern or peer out from the bow. Waves are like flames in a […]

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