Hall of Boats
The Herreshoff Marine Museum yacht collection features more than 60 classic Herreshoff yachts. They range in style and age from the 20-foot catboat SPRITE, Nat Herreshoff's first experience in naval architecture at the age of 11 1/2 years to the 56-foot yawl BELISARIUS built in 1935, his last design. As you explore the changing our great Hall of Boats you will see, first hand, the scale and scope of the work done here at the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company.

The museum's collection of Herreshoff boats >

Model Room
These areas replicate Captain Nat Herreshoff's model room and workshop from his nearby home, Love Rocks. In these rooms Nat created over 500 half models from which all of his yachts were built. Here you will learn the process by which he created the models, and the way in which Captain Nat transformed those models into the yachts that dominated the "Golden Age of Yachting," including those you see in the Hall of Boats. The Workshop features all of the equipment and tools that aided him in his work and houses his library and personal papers. Because of the fragility of the papers and models, access to the N.G. Herreshoff Model Room is possible only by appointment.

A. Sidney DeWolf Herreshoff Room
Named for Museum Founder, Sid Herreshoff, eldest son and successor of Captain Nat, this room features the Herreshoff family photos, a photographic timeline tracing the development of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, a diorama of the Company, a steam engine exhibit, fittings exhibit, and several small boats.

The oil portraits exhibited portray the family of Charles and Julia Herreshoff. For many years, these portraits adorned the walls of the music room at Herreshoff House at 142 Hope Street in Bristol.