Season 4, Episode 3: Racing Those Fast and Lovely Sailboats
Guest: Bill Horner
Air Date: March 16, 2023
Host: Jenna Jandreau
Bill Horner discusses how, over the last century, competitive sailing has evolved from a sport of the socially privileged to a community program that opens the sport to anyone who wants to participate. Through personal conversations and research, Bill learned of the people and organizations around the island that contributed to a now thriving, successful competitive sailing team of local high school students.
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. He serves on the Executive Council of the History Trust as a Northeast Harbor Fleet representative.
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 15: MDI’s Gilded Age of Yachting
- 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’”