Passagemaker Tea
Let’s toast Robert Beebe and the original Passagemaker!
Beebe also gave the world Passagemaker Tea, which is tea sweetened with Tang and laced with rum, a wonderful concoction for lubricating the machinery of conversation aboard vessels at rest.
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Before he died in 1988, Robert Beebe designed more than 150 vessels, none more famed than his 67th design which he built for himself and named Passagemaker.
A lasting legacy
Beebe laid down the principles for proper passagemakers that are still followed today
Beebe Collection at Mystic Seaport
The Capt. Robert P. Beebe Collection consists of plans and manuscript material from the personal collection of Robert Beebe. The vessel plans were a 1999 donation presented to Mystic Seaport by his widow, Linford Donovan Beebe. His daughter, Lucy Beebe Tobias, consequently donated her father's manuscripts and photographic collection.
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