There are boats. Then there’s Cirrus.

The kind of sail you’ll remember for the rest of your life.

Sail Aboard Cirrus, a 1930 Herreshoff Fishers Island 31 Yawl

In the summer of 1930, the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company launched a 44-foot yawl from its Bristol, Rhode Island, yard — hull number eleven of an eventual fourteen, widely regarded as the finest of them all. Her deep red topsides set her apart from the moment she touched water. Nearly a century later, they still do.

Cirrus came to Brooklin, Maine, in 1935. She has sailed the length of the Eggemoggin Reach through decades of fog and fair wind, past the spruce-lined shores and granite ledges that have defined this coastline long before it became known to the world. Boatbuilder and designer Joel White — himself a legend of this harbor — wrote that once seen, she is not soon forgotten. Guests of High Head can find out why firsthand.

Lovingly restored by renowned boatbuilder, Tommy Townsend in 2020 and now maintained at Brooklin Boat Yard, just next door, Cirrus is available exclusively to High Head guests for private day sails on the Reach. There is no charter list, no crowd, no itinerary unless you want one. Just the weight of the tiller in your hand, the sound of water on a wooden hull, and the particular silence that comes when everything — the boat, the breeze, and the place — is exactly right.

Read Ken Murphy’s history of Cirrus here on the CYOA website here:

Cirrus is available for private charter to High Head guests. Inquire about booking Cirrus and its captain.