let us tell you
about our boat…
THE BOAT
Night Baseball is a 44-foot trimaran—light, fast, and beautifully stable.
Originally designed in the early 1980s by Charles P. Gaebler with the support of acclaimed multihull architect Robert B. Harris, she was envisioned as a prototype for a new class of performance cruising trimarans. Built from advanced, high-performance materials that were rare for her time, she was meant to be the first of many.
But the project proved too ambitious to scale. The cost of production outweighed the market, and the design was never commercialized.
So she remained a shell—an unfinished dream—waiting quietly in a Rhode Island boatyard for someone to bring her to life.
That dream became Night Baseball.
Discovered in 1989, lovingly completed by hand and launched in 1992, she’s since logged thousands of miles—from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes—each one a testament to the enduring power of good design, expert craftsmanship, and quiet persistence.
Restored with patience and intention, Night Baseball is a vessel shaped by care and integrity—a defiant answer to a rushed world. She invites presence. Spacious and steady, she moves with grace, offering a rare kind of stillness, even in motion.
She’s more than a boat.
She’s a way of moving through the world—
and a chance to see it differently.
THE NAME
Our boat has only ever had one name: Night Baseball. It’s a nod to the 1968 court case Shlensky v. Wrigley, colloquially known as “Night Baseball,” when Cubs owner Philip Wrigley famously refused to install stadium lights at Wrigley Field. Other teams were cashing in on night games, but Wrigley held his ground. Baseball, he said, was a game for the daylight—for summer afternoons, not electric evenings.
In winning the case, Wrigley lost some profits.
But he kept the magic.
That story stuck with us—not just because it’s a charming piece of Chicago history, but because it says something deeper about the human experience: not everything worth doing can be measured in profits. Sometimes we choose the slower way forward—not for efficiency, but for meaning. To protect what’s fragile. To hold on to what can’t be replaced.
That’s the spirit behind Field Trip Chicago.
Sailing is a stubborn pastime. It’s not efficient. It demands tenacity, patience, and a deep respect for forces you can’t control. You don’t sail because it’s the fastest way to get somewhere.
You sail because the journey teaches you something—about nature, about yourself, about being present.
Night Baseball is part time machine, part spaceship. She carries you away from the noise of the city and into something quieter, older, and more wondrous. A different way of moving through the world.
We’re not here to scale fast or squeeze margins.
We’re here to create experiences that feel rare and real. That remind us what it’s like to be fully alive—together, under the open sky, with the wind in our sails and the city twinkling behind us.
If that sounds a little romantic, a little impractical… well, that’s kind of the point.
Welcome aboard.
“We believe baseball is a daytime sport, and we will continue to play it in the sunshine as long as we can.”
— Philip K. Wrigley