If you would like to learn more about RELIANCE or the Herreshoff family, feel free to check out some of these books. Many are available at our Museum store.
Capt. Nat Herreshoff: The Wizard of Bristol
by L. Francis Herreshoff
Herreshoff of Bristol
by Maynard Bray & Carlton Pinheiro
Recollections: and Other Writings by Nathanael G. Herreshoff
Edited by Carlton J. Pinheiro
Introduction by Halsey C. Herreshoff
Temple to the Wind: The Story of America’s Greatest Naval Architect and His Masterpiece, Reliance
by Christopher Pastore
Their Last Letters 1930-1938
Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and William Picard Stephens
Annotated by John W. Streeter
The RELIANCE Project 
I am building a scale model of ” Reliance ” and your web site is of great interest .I depend on whatever information I can get from the internet and the last puzzle I face (thanks to your site) is the details of the boom/mast connection.I cannot get a detailed image from the restoration website of the mechanism .Can you help is giving details? thanks Stuart McIver