Jake Burridge, the sailor

Stories From Ipswich

Jake Burridge, 1983. Photo from Ipswich Today.

In November 1982, Jake Burridge,already in his 60’s, set out on his 33-foot sailboat “Trepidation” from Gloucesterand set his course for the Bahamas. He’d made this trip before, but this time was harder. “There were gale watches all down the coast. It was windy, cold and miserable.” A trawlernamed “Lovely Lady,” that he was sailing with dragged its 65-pound anchor, and a ship from Hyannis was demolished, but Jake kept going....