Season 3, Episode 15: MDI’s Gilded Age of Yachting

Guest: Bill Horner
Air Date: December 15, 2022
Host: Jenna Jandreau

Bill Horner chats about Downeast cruising and club racing, focusing on beautiful yachts designed by gifted navel architects from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s: vessels such as the "America," "Gloriana," "Bat," "Kipper," and more. He concludes by sharing how sailing on MDI has become more inclusive as the years go on.

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About Our Guest

William (Bill) Horner, MD, grew up on MDI and practiced general surgery for thirty-eight years. Since retiring in 2007, he has immersed himself in local and regional history, presided over the MDI Historical Society for ten years, and founded the History Trust.

Chebacco articles by Bill Horner
- Racing Those Fast and Lovely Sailboats: Youth Sailing on MDI (2023)
- Mount Desert Island’s Gilded Age of Yachting (2022)
- Dr. William Begg, HMS Tenedos, the War of 1812, and the "Battle of Norwood Cove" (2020)
- The History Trust (2016)
- A Celebration of the Chebacco Boat (2013)
- From Horses to Horsepower: Mount Desert Island’s Ten-Year War for the Automobile (2013)
- Thoughts While Keeping Warm (2011)
- Deasy: A Maine Man (2010)

Previous Chebacco Chat appearances
- Season 3, Episode 5: Ralph Stanley Commemoration with Southwest Harbor Public Library
- No. 1: “Dr. William Begg, HMS Tenedos, the War of 1812 and the ‘Battle of Norwood Cove’”