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160 pages. Features: L. Francis Herreshoff - Part II; The Huckins Yacht Corporation, Part I; A plywood Lapstrake classic - a lovely Whitehall-type by English designer Iain Oughtred; WARRIOR's Figurehead - two artisans continue a craft that has almost disappeared; Tracing EGRET, a seakeeping Munroe sharpie; CHRISTINE - a winning wooden maxi racer; Restoration of 12 1/2 footers - a total rebuild at the Ballantine yard; The Gloucester fisherman's races; Stopwaters - hidden performers that keep water out; Wooden Boat Immigrants - Haiti's wooden boat lifts provide clues to the last of their working fleet. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
152 pages. Features: Henry Scheel - innovation never goes out of style; The Caddo Lake Bateau - James H. Conrad and Thad Sitton; Traditional Teak Grates - how they're made at Hinckley's; Barnegat Bay's A-Cats - racing for the next century; The Scottish Fishing Fleet - Rugged enough for the North Sea; The Tahoe Yacht Club's 12th annual Concours d'Elegance; The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding; An epic cruise in the New York pilot-schooner Caprice; Building the Kingfisher, Part II; Saw it yourself with a Bandmill. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
160 pages. Features: The Storys of Essex - a family shipbuilding tradition that spans three centuries; Brad Story - from shipbuilding to boatbuilding; The Light-Displacement Controversy - Farnham Butler's startling approach to practical yachts; The boats of Howard Blackburn, hero of Gloucester; Building the Kingfisher - Part I - a fast plywood single shell for the home builder; A RIVERKEEPER for the Hudson - high-performance patrol boat; The oldest boat from Fife still sails in Ireland; Harry Dring's Legacy - the ongoing preservation of ships; CHEROKEE - the several lives of a launch; Cold-Molded Overlay - How Bent Jesperson gets spectacular results. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
160 pages. Features: The Unretired Frank Prothero; Lindsay Lord's POT O' GOLD - a 1931 Lawley Cruiser; Keeping a cutting edge - power saws; MOCKINGULL - a wing in the wind, a wing in the water; The History of Small Yacht Design - the 40 footers; The Boatbuilders of Alexandrea Bay - Skiff-Putts and Gold Cups; Building a cheap boat shelter; Delaware Duckers - a rich history of poling, sailing, rowing and racing; Ways and Means at Riverside Boat Yard; Spike Knots; Boat Plans and the Public Domain - a forum of responses. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
160 pages. Features: The History of Small Yacht Design - Part II - examples from the era of the 'cutter craze'; The Preservation Forum; Keeping from Hitting Anything; Knock on Wood - Part II; The Handy Billy - make yourself a stout little block and tackle; A Classic in Plywood - Part I - Harold 'Dynamite' Payson building the Bolger rowing dory; Runabout Renaissance - going through the restoration process; ANNIE - Fenwick Williams's lovely 24' gaff yawl is built and sailing; GAUNTLET; Fitting the Deck Framing - foundations for your deck and house; The Narrowboats of Great Britain. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
144 pages. Features: Alaska Limit Seiners; Bill Grunwald - 26 different boats to order; Caring for deserving tools; The History of Small Yacht Design - Part I - SCHEMER and the skimming dishes; How to build PICCOLO, Part II; How to build a double paddle; LADY JEANNE - a liveaboard Maine lobsterboat; The Biloxi Schooners - the 'white queens' of the early oystering and shrimping trade; Liberated Caulking - burn the mallet; The Backbone - Part IV - the marriage of ballast and keel; Herringbone - a quick and reliable repair stitch; Milling Your Own - using a chainsaw mill to get the lumber you want. Short opening at top of coverfold. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
160 pages. Features: Mast Protection; Welcome to Hard Times - a conversation with Dean Stephens; The Elements of Seamanship, Part III; A Classic in Plywood, Part II - Planking up the Bolger rowing dory; Building the House - cabin fever in the boat yard; Knock on Wood - Part III; Zahniser's; Wooden Yachts Earning Their Keep - Chartering as one solution; Keeping Up With LINDO - maintenance on a Baltic trader in the tropics; The International Boatbuilding Training Center - Britain's industry-sponsored school for the trade; Learning to Build in Wood - a survey of American boatbuilding programs. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Behind the scenes of news gathering - a co-operative, non-profit organization aids in disseminating accurately the news of the world (the Associated Press); Editorials - cause or effect of war? - fundamentals of education - "Rolling down to Rio" by airplane - drug control; More hard luck for the ether - a funal blow is dealt to the ether theory by experiments performed with a highly refined interferometer; Tungsten bows to the plating bath - this important metal can now be deposited electrolytically; The sun an atom builder - a new theory - an attempt to explain where the sun gets the energy which it radiates; Wings over three Americas - safety and comfort for passengers are the aims of international airways; Science lends a hand to the Red Cross; New paints from synthetic resins; Are swimming pools a health menace?; Some important exhibitions in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; A solar observatory for the amateur - how to build simple equipment for solare research work; Cotton stalks - a new source of rayon; Celluloid taxidermy; Taming Silicosis; Combating magnetism in watches - Elinvar makes possible non-magnetic watch parts; When a sunbeam splits - an elementary principle of physics and an unusual analogy; The private car, yacht of the rails - the utmost in luxury that can be built within the limitiations of a railroad car. Two creases to front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
Book shows light wear to covers, heavy creasing at spine with some chipping away of the outer layer at the bottom spine. Binding is otherwise solid, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Heavily illumstated with a great many b&w photos, a section at back of 58 plans. "Never before has such a comprehensive compilation of watercraft in a museum collection been published. the Mystic Seaport Museum watercraft collection, largest in the United States, is a treasury of Northeastern vessel types. Not simply a collection of boats, it is also tangible evidence of a practical art form: the shaping of wood into useful and aesthetic watercraft." 280 pages. "Mystic Seaport Museum Watercraft" features the 220 craft in the collection, with complete descriptions, 434 illustrations, selected plans, and supplementary reading lists. For easy reference, the vessels are arranged in four categories, according to power source. The entire volume is meticulously indexed. For the historian, the boatbuilder, and for those who appreciate fine craftsmanship, this book will provide hours of pleasure and will serve as a continuing reference." Contents include catboats, sailing dinghies, yachts, working craft, ketch rigged, schooner and square rigged, punts, skiffs, dories, pulling boats, tenders , guide boats, peapods, surf boats, shells salmon wherries, sea briight skiff, yankee skiff, waterfowl boats, inboards, outboards, paddling, canoes, dugouts kayaks,
Hardcover Good condition in good d.j. good
230 p. : illus. ; 26 cm. Hardcover Ex-library, Very good condition
Oblong 8vo., First Edition, with 231 burgees illustrated in colour; navy cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, covers marked, creased and faded (but all lettering wholly legible), expertly recased, a sound, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated) at front and rear. ALL EARLY ISSUES OF THIS 'YACHTSMAN'S BIBLE' ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
In-16 gr., tela editoriale, pp. VII,(5),139, con disegni nel testo. Prima edizione. “Ocean conditions - Hull design - Below and on deck - Ship’s business - Navigation - In bad weather - Accidents and repairs, etc., etc.”. Firma di appartenenza al frontespizio, altrimenti ben conservato.
16 pages. Features: Slow play furore - Ford fined $100; Fairfield ahead at Pensacola; One-page two-color ad for MacGregor's Super Eye-O-Matic driver; One-page ad for Spalding's Par-Flite clubs; One-page golf-themed photo ad for the 1956 Lincoln car; Photo of Marilynn Smith dancing with Patty Berg; Photo of Marion G. Ridgely chatting with Anne Quast and Barbara Romack; Photo of Mickey Gallagher with Dave Ogilvie, Bob Jones and Alfred S. Bourne; Photo of Louise Suggs; Photo of Patty Berg; Two-thirds page ad for Golf Pride grips features photos of Chick Harbert and Tommy Bolt; One-page ad for the Lectracar Duo golf cart; 2/3-page ad for the E-Z-Go golf cart; Nice one-page ad for the Cavalier Yacht & Country Club; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
209 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and numerous diagrams in the text; blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
185 p., illus. Hardcover Good condition; spine faded, edges worn
185 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
132 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
132 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
52 pages. Features: Cover photo of the Royal Yacht Britannia; On the Waterfront; Ferry Fleets Update; Channel Five - colour photofeature; Tugboat Memories, by Ray Buck; The Royal Yacht Britannia - an appraisal; Under Sail - 'Unicorn'; Ships Pictorial; Cruise Ship Review; I Sailed With a Man - Captain Sandy Kinghorn recalls characters he met over forty years; The World's Navies - South Africa; South African Navy Colour Pictorial; Life at Sea - readers' reminiscences of their experiences as apprentices with four British shipping companies (continued from the May issue); Just Tugs - colour photofeature; Ferry Focus - Norse Lagan; A Captain and his Ship - Chen Ma-li is Master of Evergreen's 'R' Class container ship; Ever Result; Ports of Call; Large colour photo of the Lista; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
62pp. 25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
111p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition chipped d.j. fair
199 p., illus. Hardcover Good condition; faint spine lettering
263p., illus. Hardcover Good condition
