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Features: Class A Yachts get good grades in SORC; Dorothy Crossley's Virgin Island Interlude - a life of cruising; A day of hard winter sailing; Swedish Mistress - a liberated gal; Yankee 30 - for MORC or offshore competition; Ericson's Dramatic look matched by high performance features; Allied's new 30-footer - a good chance to win; Schock's Santana 37 features expansive rig; Thunderbird; FUN is pretty, fast, seaworthy - and was built in a basement; Bolero on Satin; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: Two -Ton Test - who's the best at IOP 32?; They call it the greatest spectacle in yacht racing - from Newport Harbor, California to Ensenada, Mexico; Under iron canopies through pastures on an inland passage to teh lakes; Victoria Yachtscape - another Balboa?; Alden's MALABAR IV lives! - she's MISTRESS II of New Orleans; Innovative monocoque 1/4 tonner, a cruiser too - Art Paine and TWO BITS; English Archer type is connoisseur's cruising yacht - Charles Ward, builder of the Saga 34; Frers turns to cruising with attractive 40-footer - the Frers 40; Farallon 29 - stiff family cruiser, competent to weather; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: A date with nostalgia - a fleet of square riggers and schooners off New Bedford, Massachusetts; Newport Again - this time the world prize for One Ton yachts; Rusty at the Helm - Sylvia Everdell of Boston; Why sail alone across Lake Michigan? - well, why not?; Racing the Trailerable; A Boast and a Big Prize - the first MacGregor Challenge; Tobago Cays - gems of the Grenadines; The Westerly Conway - offshore yacht from England; Allied Seawind II - New Gillmer Circumnatigator; Downeaster 38 - Traditional cruiser from California; Kaufman 30-footer - C-Flex 1/2 ton cup yacht; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Autumn on the Chesapeake; Last Dance off Steel Shore (Chicago); Cape 25 is small cruiser with good looks; Luxurious Challenger 48 is large cruising sailer; The Triton - glass success of the fifites; A Portfolio... by Denis Mason; Schooners at play in race sponsored by Ida Lewis Yacht Club, Newport, Rhode Island; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
Features: Suddenly I wanted to go sailing - G.A. (Andy) Marken; Kialoa III; AMERICA Lives! (colour centerfold!); Little Yacht for blue water and big fun - the 20 foot Able; Swampfire - American level racer and 3/4 ton winner; Rating is no handicap for Wylie's impressive NO GO-7; Stylish Palmer Johnson cruiser 43CR built by Wauquiez; Miller & Whitworth design GINKGO type for glass production; Twin Screw Nicholson 70 designed for plush cruising; Bonjour Tahiti - Hobie sailors race in paradise - world competition at Baie de Matavai; Javelin - a class close-up; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Exotic Friendly Isla Mujeres Beckons; Easter Fleet found itself in difficiult straits near Vancouver; Columbia 30 more 40-footer than 30; Westsail is appealing double Ender; Gary Mull's One Ton Yacht in Production at Ranger; Three Bidders for the Canada's Cup - Merrythought, Dynamite, Aggressive; "Pert" family day-sailer of the 30s still a New England favorite; Two Gaff Riggers; Olympics here we come; Robin off Scituate; Can a sailor be liberated in a bikini?; 400 miles north to Charleston - the annual Fort Lauderdale to Charleston race; Number 4 for Capt. Gray and TIDA WAVE; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
Features: Sea Hawk - profile of a cruising man's yacht - from navy launch to stately schooner; Dutchman in flight; William Crealock designs distant voyager - Westsail 42; Palmer Johnson SF 47, flush deck racer by Frans Maas; On Bonaire (off Venezuela) - like being at sea; 5-0-5 acrobatics; afternoon on the Indian River, Florida; Sally has a knockdown; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
Features: 1,046 boats plu 90 classes plus 14 yacht clubs equals one mega-regatta - the 46th Annual Southern California Yachting Association Regatta; The thriving Thunderbird - 26 foot sloop; Memories of Georgian Bay and the splendor of north country; Norway - land of sailors; A Sailing Legacy, by Taylor Walsh; Foul Weather Dinghy Sailing across the Atlantic - an invigorating view about the buoys by English photographer Alistair Black; A Look at Speed under Sail; 470s and a Tempest meet on Buzzards Bay; Marauder - innovations for the Canada's Cup; Newport 28 has good ideas from worlds of racing and cruising; Modern Maxi 95 - novel 32-footer by upcoming Swedish designer Pelle Petterson; Beautiful, distinctive 34-foot pinky is Jay Benford's own; Hinckley Sou'wester 48 - modern cruiser of conventional lines; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Landfall at Diamond Head - ONDINE surts to the Transpac finish line; The Widgeon - class close-up of a big 12.5-foot pocket sailboat, ready for abuse, designed to give a good ride; Footing up the (Puget) Sound - 26-footers on the Gold Cup course off Shilshole Bay Marina; The Tumlaren - she gets into your blood; On Shore, by Paul Darling; Where mountains loom over quite beaches and bowls of coconut chips grace the bar - the Windward Islands in the Caribbean; Hail Skipjacks! - last of a breed; Nicholson 33 - 3/4 tonner by Holland; Ericson Cruising 36 - Rakish cutter by Bruce King; Sea Sprite - 22'6" sloop by Carl Alberg; Shannon 38 - Modern Ocean Cruising Yacht; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Ships in the News - Flashback to Wartime; Royal Holland Lloyd Liner "Flandria" of 1922; "Oropesa" the Fourth; With Prince Line Round the Land; New Ships - North Sea Diving Support Vessel; Fleetwood Memories (2); Ships on Stamps - Steam Yachts and Cargo Vessels; French Line on the North Atlantic; Ferry Scene - Manx Challenge; Danish Sailing Coasters Decline. Book
Features: Cruising across the Arctic Ocean; Mapping the North - Who Was Really Where When?; The Last Resort - Cannibalism in the Arctic; Plying the Northwest Passage - The First Single-Season Traverse by Yacht; Plants of the Arctic Tundra; Capturing the North - The Work of Claire Fejes. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Stories: The Naked Man - a story from Africa; Starting Life Afresh in South Africa - our experiment in orange growing; Nine Lives - an interesting cat story; Doctor Ash Takes Charge - an amusing story of how a lazy family came to do some real hard work - perhaps for the first time in their lives; A Flight to Save a Ship (The Lipari) - the author rents a plane to locate a beached vessel and claim it for his salvage company; Chinese Pirates of Today - photos; The Big Voyage of the Little Shanghai - from Shanghai to Copenhagen in a 42 foot yacht; A Trooper's battle with a Lion; The Old Rifle - a New Mexico Tale involving the Halleck and Howard Mill at La Madera; The Mail Bag Mystery - a delightful Irish story; A bear with a Brain - a very clever thieving Grizzly; The Diamond Smuggers - the author describes his gem-running exploits; Land of Volcanoes - a visit to the Tengger, the principal volcanic centre of Java; The Last of the Corsican Bandits - the meteoric career of Romanetti; Prior owner's name pencilled atop front cover else unmarked. Above-average but not excessive wear. Back cover nearly detached. A worthy vintage copy. Book
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,
6778Admiralty. 20 May 1937. Printed by 'H & S Ltd.'. 8vo; 33 pp. In original blue printed wraps. On lightly-aged paper with occasional foxing in creased wraps. With the stamp of the Royal Portsmouth Corinthian Yacht Club. The entries for the eighteen nations listed on the second page have been ticked off in blue pencil and the ships of two other nations Canada and India added beneath the list in manuscript. Listing the crews of the various ships with seniority. Represented are both the U.S.S.R. with the 'Marat' 'Flagman 2nd Rank Rear Admiral - V. I. Ivanov Commanding Officer. 4 Nov. 1936.' and Germany with the 'Admiral Graf Spee' 'Kapitan zur See Captain - Conrad Patzig Commanding Officer 1 Oct. 1933.' Scarce: no copy recorded on WorldCat COPAC currently down! Admiralty. 20 May 1937. [Printed by 'H & S, Ltd.'] paperback
0666148325.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1332959229.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19152230833New York: Knickerbocker Press 1915. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. 318 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Both outer corners significantly bumped. Some separation along lower hinge of front end papers but spine tight. Slight fading to edges of front end papers. Previous owner's name inside front cover "Charles Case" and inscription to former owner on front end papers "6/10/00". Long list of notable aristocratic club members of the era including Astors Vanderbilts Morgans FDR King George V and His Imperial Majesty the German Emperor. Record # 2230833 Knickerbocker Press hardcover
