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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
194 p., illus. Designed by Eugene V. Connett. Hardcover Very good condition good
194 p., illus. Designed by Eugene V. Connett. Hardcover Ex-library, Good condition
401p. Hardcover Very good condition
8vo., with frontispiece, plates, numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of brown cloth boards, upper board lettered in gilt, brown buckram back blocked and lettered in gilt, brown top, a near fine copy.
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 252pp. The sailing team of the author and his wife reflect their experience of sailing in all weathers, whether cruising or racing. It also covers his skills as a yacht designer including some of the mathematics involved in this work.
120p., illus. Magazine Very good condition
Oversize. 153 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Oversize. 153 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
248 pages. Every sailor's dream cruise: how a Canadian family (including Peter, 4, and Penny, 6) build a boat in their backyard and sailed it to Africa, South America and Panama on their way around the world. Clean and unmarked with negligible wear. Super copy. Book
254p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
254p., illus. w/ drawings by the author. Hardcover Very good condition
443p. illus. Hardcover Very good condition very good d.j. good
304p., illus. Hardcover Good condition good
8vo., with frontispiece, plates and illustrated endpapers; original series binding of brown buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, top and fore-edge darkened, hinges cracked (but binding entirely sound), a good, bright, clean copy. Lonsdale Library Vol. XV. First published in 1933.
Oblong 286p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good