When I completed my painting depicting the Herreshoff schooners Elena, Eleanora and Mariette racing off Palma in 2016 that one day I would visit the paintings owners house and meet Halsey Herreshoff the legendary Americas Cup veteran and grandson of the famous Wizard of Bristol Nat Herreshoff. It was a day I’ll never forget and one I could never had envisioned when I stood in front of the freshly completed painting in my studio.
