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nearly dropped her onto the bottom in the troughs.
The voyage from Shinnecock to Block Island was great sailing with a full moon that evening and a thunderstorm threatening in the distance. The compass light gave out during the night in a puff of foul smoke and John sailed by a star in the constellation Cassiopeia, which brought him to a safe anchorage in Great Salt Pond harbor at Block Island just before midnight.
The sail from Block Island to Newport was exciting, with competition from another lone sailor’s boat of similar size. At Newport, the Altair sailed in company with the spectator fleet during the course of the races and participated in the full excitement of yet another American victory. On off days, she sailed on several occasions to Woods Hole and to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
The voyage back to Annapolis was varied by a passage through Long Island Sound, the&East and Hudson Rivers, past the Statue of Liberty and down the New Jersey coast and back to Cape May and Annapolis.
Two weeks after the boat had safely completed this demanding voyage, vandals armed with a .22 caliber rifle perforated the hull with bullet holes in an attempt to sink the vessel. It became apparent that until major repairs could be effected, the boat would never be seaworthy again.
The Altair’s last journey was by farm trailer, towed first by a borrowed dump truck from Annapolis to Culpeper and thence to Rappahannock through Culpeper and Madison counties by an aging two-cylinder John Deere tractor. County viewers stared as the cumbersome load lumbered along the F.T. Valley road and then down the narrow, winding road to the skipper’s farm.
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