Boat Crazy
Autor Stan Graysonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 mai 2024
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781493078974
ISBN-10: 1493078976
Pagini: 286
Ilustrații: Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Maps; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; Black & White Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Lyons Press
ISBN-10: 1493078976
Pagini: 286
Ilustrații: Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Maps; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; Black & White Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Lyons Press
Cuprins
Foreword
Introduction
PART ONE: CATBOATS
Herreshoff Catboats: The Roots of a Boatbuilding Dynasty
Searching for C. C. Hanley: Recreating a Catboat of the Golden Age
The Cat Men of Quincy: The Rise and Decline of the D Class
“The Little Engine that Could”: 100 Years of Beetle Cats
Oscar and Vanity: Remembering New England’s Last Catboat Fisherman
PART TWO: YACHTING
The Yankee Sloop: Puritan and the 1885 America’s Cup
Searching for C. D. Mower: “He Designed Some of the Best”
The Sonder Class: Germany vs. America 1906–1913
Gilbert Monroe Smith: The Wizard of Great South Bay
“Like a Fish in a Basket of Sawdust”: Winfield M. Thompson: Reporter and Sailor
PART THREE: POWER
Chasing the Dragon: Recreating a Herreshoff Steam Launch
Time Machine: Exploring America’s Oldest Marine Engine
The Man from Motorboat Lane: Joe Van Blerck and the Van Blerck Engine Company
Legends of the Rips: In Search of the New England Bass Boat
A Wide White Road: C. Raymond Hunt and the Development of the deep-V hull
PART FOUR: BOAT CRAZY
The Musketaquid Mystery: In Search of Thoreau’s Boat
Slocum’s Luck: A Life of Near Misses and Good Fortune
Electric Experiences: Small Voyages toward a New World
Sharpie Madness: Remembering a Black Skimmer
The Ghosts in the Rossie Mill: The Unseen Boats at Mystic Seaport Museum
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE: CATBOATS
Herreshoff Catboats: The Roots of a Boatbuilding Dynasty
Searching for C. C. Hanley: Recreating a Catboat of the Golden Age
The Cat Men of Quincy: The Rise and Decline of the D Class
“The Little Engine that Could”: 100 Years of Beetle Cats
Oscar and Vanity: Remembering New England’s Last Catboat Fisherman
PART TWO: YACHTING
The Yankee Sloop: Puritan and the 1885 America’s Cup
Searching for C. D. Mower: “He Designed Some of the Best”
The Sonder Class: Germany vs. America 1906–1913
Gilbert Monroe Smith: The Wizard of Great South Bay
“Like a Fish in a Basket of Sawdust”: Winfield M. Thompson: Reporter and Sailor
PART THREE: POWER
Chasing the Dragon: Recreating a Herreshoff Steam Launch
Time Machine: Exploring America’s Oldest Marine Engine
The Man from Motorboat Lane: Joe Van Blerck and the Van Blerck Engine Company
Legends of the Rips: In Search of the New England Bass Boat
A Wide White Road: C. Raymond Hunt and the Development of the deep-V hull
PART FOUR: BOAT CRAZY
The Musketaquid Mystery: In Search of Thoreau’s Boat
Slocum’s Luck: A Life of Near Misses and Good Fortune
Electric Experiences: Small Voyages toward a New World
Sharpie Madness: Remembering a Black Skimmer
The Ghosts in the Rossie Mill: The Unseen Boats at Mystic Seaport Museum
Acknowledgments