{"id":58307,"date":"2025-02-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/?p=58307"},"modified":"2025-02-27T15:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T20:18:42","slug":"matsya-seeks-a-new-steward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/sailboats\/matsya-seeks-a-new-steward\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to <i>Matsya<\/i>: Classic Sailboat Seeks a New Steward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Matsya-sunrise-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image disable-lazyload\" alt=\"Sailboat on the water at sunrise\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Matsya-sunrise-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Matsya-sunrise-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Matsya-sunrise-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Matsya-sunrise-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Matsya-sunrise.jpg 2000w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\"><i>Matsya<\/i> on her mooring at sunrise<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Carol Newman Cronin<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>Some boats are simply vessels, but <em>Matsya<\/em> is something more\u2014a whisper of history, a guardian of quiet waters, a keeper of wooden grace. She has carried me across Narragansett Bay with a steady hand and an easy motion, her Herreshoff lines cutting cleanly through time itself. On her mooring, she turns heads. Under sail, she turns moments into memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But even the most beloved boats deserve devotion, and Rhode Island summers are fleeting. My heart has drifted toward wingfoiling, and Matsya deserves a captain who will hoist her sails as often as the wind allows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the last of her kind\u2014a Herreshoff Marlin, not to be confused with her fiberglass namesake\u2014she was lovingly rebuilt in the 1990s and remains in excellent condition. She is ready, as she always has been, to carry a new steward toward peace, adventure, and the simple joy of sailing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever dreamed of owning a true classic, this is your chance. <em>Matsya<\/em> is waiting. For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/classicboatshow.com\/classified\/21-herreshoff-fish-marlin-1938-matsya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Own a piece of sailing history\u2014<i>Matsya<\/i>, a classic Herreshoff Marlin, is ready for a new steward to cherish her timeless grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":58309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"BS_author_type":"BS_author_is_guest","BS_guest_author_name":"Carol Newman Cronin","BS_guest_author_url":"","hydra_display_date":"","hydra_display_updated":false,"arc_story_id":"","arc_website_url":"","arc_subtype":"","arc_exclude_from_feeds":false,"sponsored":false,"sponsored_label":"Sponsored Content","sponsored_display_label":false,"post_right_rail":true,"post_right_rail_ad_1":true,"post_right_rail_ad_2":true,"post_right_rail_ad_3":false,"post_right_rail_ad_4":false,"post_right_rail_recirc":true,"fixed_anchor_ad":true,"post_top_ad":true,"post_off_ramp":true,"post_taboola":false,"labels":true,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","ad_settings_ads_on_this_page":true,"ad_settings_automatic_ad_injection_into_the_content":true,"ad_targeting":"","alternate_title_newsletter":"","alternate_content_newsletter":"","sponsored_image":false,"sponsored_url":"","social_share":true},"categories":[167],"tags":[1981,195],"class_list":["post-58307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sailboats","tag-brokerage","tag-sailboats"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}