I spent two summers at the Officers Candidate School, on the Naval Station Newport, one in 1965 and the second in 1967. At the completion of the second summer I was commissioned as an Ensign in the Naval Civil Engineer Corps. Being on the base again brought back a lot of memories.
While in Newport I had a chance to sail with a Navy friend and former business partner Rear Admiral Bill Heine. Bill and his wife Yolanda live in Newport in the summer and Bill keeps his sail boat in the Navy Marina, down the dock from where we were. They also invited us for a great dinner at the New York Yacht Club's Newport Club House which overlooks Newport Harbor.
While in Newport we were treated to the the Navy's End Of Summer Celebration on the lawn in front of the Was College. This is a yearly event where the Navy invites the community to join them. The best part of the Celebration was the spectacular fireworks.
Downtown Newport has some great shops and restaurants along the waterfront most with a colorful New England architecturally styled buildings. In the Harbor we saw Infinity, a new 2015, 270 foot plus super yacht built by Oceanco in the Netherlands. A beautifully designed and exquisitely built boat. Directly across Narragansett Bay from Newport is James Town a small and charming New England village.
At the end of our Newport visit Rich and Sandy Lewis joined us. They are members of the yacht club Corsair, with its its facilities on Catalina Island on the West Coast. We are cruising members of this same club. Together we visited the Breakers and the Marble House, both 19th century Gilted age summer "cottages" of the Vanderbilts. We ended this tour of opulence with lunch at the Castle Hill Inn, overlooking the entrance to Narragansett Bay and Newport Harbor.
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