Eight Bells: Bruce Tait

Michael “Bruce” Tait, who was a fixture for more than 40 years on Sag Harbor’s waterfront (New York) as a sailor, yacht broker, and longtime chairman of the Village Harbor Committee, died on July 29 at his home, just a stone’s throw away from the harbor he loved. Tait, who was 72, had quietly battled cancer for nearly three years, his family said.

Tait, who was born in Los Angeles, lived a peripatetic lifestyle as a young man, traveling to Grenada in the Caribbean, spending time in Europe, and crisscrossing the United States by car, as a hitchhiker or hopping on freight trains, his daughter Danielle Tait Barton said, eventually returning home to graduate from North Hollywood High School and later earn his captain’s license. – Full report