Book Description
An important feature of the book is its illustrated glossary-appendix, which covers items of hull construction and equipment, rigging and gear, colour and carving, and includes notes by the builders and riggers themselves.
Author : Howard Irving Chapelle
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 32,76 MB
Release : 1995-07-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780393037555
An important feature of the book is its illustrated glossary-appendix, which covers items of hull construction and equipment, rigging and gear, colour and carving, and includes notes by the builders and riggers themselves.
Author : Howard Irving Chapelle
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Fishing boats
ISBN : 9780393031232
Author : Howard Irving Chapelle
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393031430
From the author of Yacht Designing and Planning and Boatbuilding: the definitive history and survey of the great classic American small sailing craft.
Author : Wayne M. O'Leary
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 1994-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0773564624
Wayne O'Leary provides detailed descriptions of how the schooners were conceived and perfected, and paints a vivid picture of life on Tancook from the late eighteenth century into the twentieth century. He shows how national and international developments affected the lives of the Tancook Islanders and the character and uses of the vessel for which they became famous. He also includes many stories about individual builders and a wealth of photographs and drawings. The Tancook Schooners will be of interest to maritime enthusiasts as well as maritime, economic, and social historians.
Author : Howard Chappelle
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 1994-04-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393035544
Reprint of the Chapelle (Search for Speed Under Sail) original published by Norton in 1941. Now printed on acid-free paper and with a new foreword by Jonathan Wilson. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Keith McLaren
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 40,74 MB
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1771622687
In the summer of 1920, the public following the latest America’s Cup series were frustrated to find that every time the wind got up, the organizers called off the race. There was muttering in the taverns of Halifax and Lunenburg: why not show these fancy yachtsmen what real sailors can do? A Nova Scotia newspaper donated a trophy and put out a challenge to their rivals in New England, inviting them to meet the Maritimes’ best in a “race for real sailors.” A Race for Real Sailors is a vibrant history of the Fishermen’s Cup series, which dominated sporting headlines between the two world wars. The salt spray practically blows off the page as the author’s arresting style captures the drama of each race and the personalities of the ships that contested them: the Delawana and the Esperanto, the Columbia and the Gertrude L. Thebaud, and dominating them all the Bluenose, the big brute from Lunenburg whose image shines on the Canadian dime to this day. Vying for the spotlight are the boats’ larger-than-life skippers, among them Marty Welch, the hard-charging American who first took the cup; Ben Pine, the Gloucester scrap dealer whose passion kept the races afloat when they seemed destined to fade away; and the irascible, impossible Angus Walters, master of the Bluenose, who repeatedly broke American hearts but whose own heart was broken by Canada’s refusal to come to the rescue of his beloved vessel. This stirring and poignant tale is illustrated with 51 historical photographs and five maps, and rounded out by a glossary of sailing terms and an appendix of the ever-changing race rules. This is a story that will keep even confirmed landlubbers pegged to their seats, a tale of iron men and wooden ships whose time will never come again.
Author : Susan R. Playfair
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 2005-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781584654520
The story of the ongoing debate between the New England communities of fishermen, federal regulators, scientists and environmentalists.
Author : Michael Wayne Santos
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781575910536
Santos (history, Lynchburg College) uses the international fishermen's races that captured popular imagination in the US and Canada during the 1920s and 1930s as a means for discussing the changing economic and social realities that redefined the North Atlantic fisheries and the society as a whole i
Author : Richard Kerfoot Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,40 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Joseph E. Garland
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9781567921410
The story of the swift but perilous Gloucester schooners and of the men who built, sailed, raced and fished them.