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Packed with information, ideas, and more than 300 excellent illustrations, this classic of the genre was written by the father of modern planing sailboats. Most of text focuses on individual vessels; among the 20 profiled are the 60-foot-long Landfall; the Patience; and the author's own creation, the Vigilant.… (altro)
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DEDICATION to NAVAL ARCHITECTS
Yachtsmen looking at vessels developed and designed for their especial benefit, such as are shown in this book, must realise how much they owe to the designers whose lives have been spent in the study of the way of a ship at sea.
It is only through the kindness of G. L. Watson, Charles Nicholson, William Fife, Alfred Mylne, J. M. Soper, Frederick Shepherd, Morgan Giles, Laurent Giles and Harley Mead of England, and Starling Burgess, Francis Herreshoff, Olin Stephens, Clinton Crane and Cox and Stevens of America that I have been able to illustrate this book with the very best designs, both British and American, of cruising and racing vessels.
Incipit
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Sailing, and so Seamanship, will endure until the end of all things, for sailing is the one thing above all others that offers peace and escape to a man whose rain is weary and tired of the machinery which this age and future ages force and will force upon human beings.
(Introduction)
Seamen are made up of deepwater men and coasters, and until I met Typhoon and her owner I was a coaster only, not having sailed off soundings; so Typhoon having given me perspective, which, like humour in life, gives a sense of proportion and balance, Typhoon shall have the honour of going in to bat first.
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For I have sailed in canoes, dinghies, all kinds of racers, from the smallest to the largest, and in every kind of cruiser, pilot and fishing boat, in all weathers fair and foul, and this design is the result of it all, a blend of every one from a square rigged vessel to a canoe.
"My heart was so free, it roved like a bee, Till Polly my Passion requited; I sipped each flower, I changed every hour, But here every flower is united."
Packed with information, ideas, and more than 300 excellent illustrations, this classic of the genre was written by the father of modern planing sailboats. Most of text focuses on individual vessels; among the 20 profiled are the 60-foot-long Landfall; the Patience; and the author's own creation, the Vigilant.
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