Download or read book The Man Who Loved Schooners written by Robert Louis Boudreau and published by . This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From surviving torpedos in WWII to pioneering the Caribbean charter trade, this autobiography plots an exciting voyage across four decades of Boudreau's passion for sailing and schooners. This account describes his adventures under sail, from a confrontation with a 65-foot rogue wave and a fight with drug pirates in the Bahamas to an eerie encounter with a tiger shark and the onslaught of a vicious hurricane.
Download or read book The T W Lawson The Fate of the World s Only Seven Masted Schooner written by Thomas Hall and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armed with curiosity and a desire to piece together the story of the world's only seven-masted schooner, Tom Hall spent several years researching on both sides of the Atlantic, diving on the Lawson wreck and interviewing the relatives of those involved in the rescue efforts. The result of his work is the most complete account of the T. W. Lawson's story, ranging from her building and launch to her fated wreck off the Scilly Isles.
Download or read book Thomas F McManus and the American Fishing Schooners written by William Matthew Patrick Dunne and published by Mystic Seaport Museum Incorporated. This book was released on 1994 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas F. McManus was the most influential and prolific designer of American fishing schooners between 1890 and 1925. In this, the first comprehensive biography of McManus, historian and naval architect W.M.P. Dunne traces the McManus family's Irish origins, their emigration as skilled artisans from Ireland to Boston in the 1840s, and their successful establishment there as sailmakers and fishermen. Tom McManus began as a fish dealer, but through his work with noted naval architects he took up designing in the 1880s. Always interested in the lot of his fishermen friends, he made many design improvements to fishing vessels, most notably the elimination of the bowsprit in his knock-about model. He also promoted fishermen's races, and his schooner Henry Ford was among the best of the racing fishermen of the 1920s.
Download or read book The Last Schoonerman written by Joe Russell and published by Fine Edge Productions. This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Schoonerman - The remarkable life of Captain Lou Kenedy
Download or read book Zeb written by Polly Burroughs and published by Insiders' Guide. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The illustrated biography of a local folk hero and Martha's Vineyard icon.
Download or read book Adventures in the Trade Wind written by Richard Dey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is at once the biography of an Englishman who became the pioneering charterboat skipper of an American yacht, and a history of the charterboat business in the islands. Morris Nicholson’s story reflects a time now all but vanished in the islands, beginning when they were neglected colonial outposts and a single yacht meant income for the islanders. In no other book is there an account of how skippered yachts, bareboats, and headboats came to sail the Caribbean Sea and became an economic sector. However it is Nicholson’s story—and his stories of others—that drives the narrative and fills it with human interest.
Download or read book The Woodenboat written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book With Reckless Abandon written by Jim Sharp and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the inspiring story of a man who overcame childhood polio to live an adventure-filled life as captain of Maine's most famous windjammer, the schooner Adventure, now a National Historic Landmark in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Captain Jim shares his adventures afloat, his battles with bureaucracy, and even how he created one of Maine's most unusual restaurants.
Download or read book Slop Chest written by Dominic Zachorne and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, a little about me. I have lived aboard a boat since I was born; my parents moved aboard when they married. I currently live aboard my 1937 Alden cutter Atea in Wickford, Rhode Island. I have spent my entire life learning and practicing the ways of the sea and sailors. From intricate knotwork, scrimshaw, and ship models, to rigging, building, and operating of vessels. I have always loved the sea and enjoyed the traditions and arts of the seafaring man. Over the years I've held the positions of seaman, bo'sun, mate, and captain on many vessels big and small. I have built vessels, rigged them, and sailed them. My adventures have taken me along the eastern seaboard from Halifax, Novia Scotia down to the British Virgin Islands and Bermuda. I have been involved with various projects and serving the US Coast Guard as a consultant, rigger, and surveyor, as well as other outfits such as G. W. Zachorne, Jr. and Sons Boat Builders, Gannon and Benjamin Marine Railway, Beetle Boat Works, and Black Dog Tall Ships. My artwork, ship models, scrimshaw, and markinspike handiwork is scattered across the country and abroad. It resides in the New York Yacht Club model room, Broadway, museums, and organizations like the Rhode Island Arts Council.
Download or read book Tancook Schooners written by Wayne M. O'Leary and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994-09-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Arthur s Home Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hand Reef and Steer written by Tom Cunliffe and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook on sailing classic boats by the 'guru of gaff-rig sailors', replete with illustrations and clear descriptions of techniques that are unique to the classic boat world.
Download or read book Gloucester on the Wind written by Joseph E. Garland and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1995-04-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the development of photography in the mid-nineteenth century, the camera has been used as a tool of both discovery and preservation. Photographs bring alive our image of the past, and can open a floodgate of memories and nostalgia or inspire curiosity and a sense of history. Originally founded by a fishing company from Dorchester, England, in 1623, Gloucester has always been linked to fishing and the sea. By 1870 Gloucester was the leading fishing port in the Western Hemisphere, and its great fleet of fast, white-winged schooners ranged deep into the heart of the Atlantic in search of cod, haddock, halibut, and mackerel. These stunningly beautiful ships and the hardy men who sailed them made "Gloucester" an evocation of courage, perseverance, and seamanship unique in America's maritime heritage.
Download or read book August Gale written by Barbara Walsh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning journalist’s voyage into her family history and her quest to face the storms she encounters there. In August Gale, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barbara Walsh—who has interviewed killers, bad cops, and crooked politicians in the course of her career—faces the most challenging story of her lifetime: asking her father about his childhood pain. In the process, she takes us on two heartrending odysseys: one into a deadly Newfoundland hurricane and the lives of schooner fishermen who relied on God and the wind to carry them home; the other, into a squall stirred by a man with many secrets: a grandfather who remained a mystery until long after his death. Sixty-eight years after the hurricane that claimed several of her ancestors, Walsh searches for memories of the August gale and the grandfather who abandoned her dad as a young boy. Together, she and her father journey to Newfoundland to learn about the 1935 storm, and along the way her dad begins to talk about the man he cannot forgive. As she recreates the scenes of the violent hurricane and a small boy's tender past, she holds onto a hidden desire: to heal her father and redeem the grandfather she has never met.
Download or read book The Selected Poetry of Vicente Huidobro written by Vicente Huidobro and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1981 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He is the invisible oxygen of our poetry."--Octavio Paz
Download or read book Sea Wife written by Amity Gaige and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year “Brilliantly breathes life not only into the perils of living at sea, but also into the hidden dangers of domesticity, parenthood, and marriage. What a smart, swift, and thrilling novel.” —Lauren Groff, author of Florida Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. With their two kids—Sybil, age seven, and George, age two—Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four foot sailboat awaits them. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given a gust of energy, Juliet emerges from her depression, and the children quickly embrace the joys of being at sea. The vast horizons and isolated islands offer Juliet and Michael reprieve – until they are tested by the unforeseen. A transporting novel about marriage, family and love in a time of unprecedented turmoil, Sea Wife is unforgettable in its power and astonishingly perceptive in its portrayal of optimism, disillusionment, and survival.
Download or read book The Blackwood Schooner written by Bruce Stagg and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "That's a dangerous coastline, too . . . around Catalina . . . we don't want to venture too close to the shore in this wind." On the night of December 6, 1926, during a blinding snowstorm, a schooner out of Port Nelson, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland, ran into the rugged cliffs just north of Little Catalina. Of the nine crew members, seven men and one woman perished, while one man, the captain's son, astonishingly survived. This is the amazing true story of the Ella M. Rudolph and her crew.
