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The real origins of sailboat racing on the Connecticut River date back to the early 1900's when shad fishermen raced their "dragnet" boats informally each spring. However it was the Great Depression that provided the impetus for organized dinghy…

The Dolly Madison made her first trips on the Connecticut River in 1964, after having spent two years on the Potomac River as an excursion boat from Washington, D.C., to Mount Vernon, Virginia. Together with her sister ship , the Martha Washington,…

Steamboating on the Connecticut River lasted nearly 140 years, ending in 1931 when the large propeller-driven steamers Middletown and Hartford took their last runs. The nineteenth century was the heyday of the side-wheeler steamboats such as that…

The Connecticut River, main artery for the Indians in their canoes, and later for the explores to penetrate the mainland of the country, has, in the last 200 years, undergone several changes in the types of craft and commerce upon its waters. The…

The barometer dipped to 28.02 on September 21, 1938 about 3 P.M. and the citizens of this beautiful yachting center on the Connecticut River watched helplessly as their yachts disappeared one by one. Three men died that afternoon, among them Nils Ek…