Perkins recalled taking sailing trips with Rothschild and both their wives on Rothschild’s yacht, the Moonbeam. Together, they took sea trips to places like Halifax and Scandinavia.
“I sailed with him and cruised with him and he was a superb skipper and a most genial companion,” Perkins said.
He was also commodore of the Cruising Club of America in 1988 and 1989—“a post any sailor would be greatly honored to hold,” Perkins said.
Rothschild is survived by wife Virginia, sisters Carol Noyes and Phyllis Farley, children Trip, Suzanne, Jane and Nina, and 10 grandchildren.
—Staff writer Laura L. Krug can be reached at krug@fas.harvard.edu.
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