Bob Douglas

June 30, 2021

Creative Living Award Goes to Capt. Bob Douglas

Julia Wells
The legendary former owner of the topsail schooner Shenandoah will receive the prestigious Creative Living Award for 2020-2021, the Martha’s Vineyard Community Foundation announced Wednesday.
Creative Living Award
Bob Douglas
Shenandoah

2022

October 31, 2022

Waterfront Community Helps Raider Chart New Course

Harry Ricciardi
Bob Douglas
Gannon and Benjamin Marine Railway

The sound of sledgehammers ringing against iron pipes took over the Vineyard Haven waterfront this weekend as the 1910 British Channel pilot cutter Raider was rolled from the back of the shed at Five Corners.

May 16, 2022

At 90, Capt. Robert Douglas Sets New Course for the Future

Aidan Pollard
Bob Douglas
Shenandoah

Sailors of all ages gathered at Arrowhead Farm in West Tisbury Saturday to celebrate the 90th birthday of Capt. Robert S. Douglas, the legendary captain of the schooner Shenandoah.

2021

June 30, 2021

Creative Living Award Goes to Capt. Bob Douglas

Julia Wells
Creative Living Award
Bob Douglas
Shenandoah

The legendary former owner of the topsail schooner Shenandoah will receive the prestigious Creative Living Award for 2020-2021, the Martha’s Vineyard Community Foundation announced Wednesday.

2018

January 12, 2018

Cruising Through History With Capt. Bob Douglas

Louisa Hufstader
Black Dog Tavern Company
Sail MV
Shenandoah
Bob Douglas

A convivial crowd filled the Black Dog Tavern Wednesday night for the first in this season’s Sail Martha’s Vineyard dinner lectures. Capt. Bob Douglas was the man at the microphone.

1964

July 21, 1964

Shenandoah Makes It Grandly to Her Home Port

Vineyard Gazette
Shenandoah
Boats and boating
Vineyard Haven harbor
Bob Douglas
The extreme clipper schooner, Shenandoah, Capt. Robert S. Douglas, master, arrived at her home port, Vineyard Haven, during the weekend, and is due to sail this week for the Atlantic Ocean with her first passenger list. Named for a U. S. revenue cutter built in 1849, whose hull design and rig have been closely followed, the Shenandoah symbolizes all that was beautiful, judicious and distinct in the sailing craft that made America famous on the seven seas.
 
February 21, 1964

Shenandoah Launched

Marianna Winslow
Shenandoah
Boats and boating
Sailing
Bob Douglas
There was a feeling of excitement and expectation in the air as one arrived at the shipyard of Harvey F. Gamage in South Bristol, Me., Saturday morning.
 
Arriving at the same time were MacPherson’s Pipers, a seventeen-piece bagpipe band handsomely attired in full dress kilt regimentals of colorful tartan, their immaculate gaiters gleaming white in the water sun.