Episode 58 - Bristol, CT

from Pull Over · host Richard L Burr

John Brown Herreshoff went blind in his twenties. In 1878, he and his brother Nathanael opened a boatbuilding company in this Rhode Island town anyway — and for the next forty years, every single winning America's Cup yacht, eight consecutive defenses in a row, came out of their shipyard.

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