A few years ago, Patty Kitchings was in search of a little daysailer for herself. She'd owned and sailed boats of all sizes throughout her life, having grown up cruising with her family and sailing small boats off the beaches of the Connecticut shore. When she was in her early 20s, she bought a Bullseye—a fiberglass version of Nathanael Herreshoff's legendary Herreshoff 12~(1/2) daysailer. Soon thereafter, she met a young man named Howie Knox, a former Peace Corps volunteer and a Yale-trained architect who was then making his living lobstering in Stonington, Connecticut.
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