The Last of the Cape Horners: Firsthand Accounts From the Final Days of the Commercial Tall Ships
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (993 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1574884093 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
When we think of commercial sailing, most of us are apt to picture square-riggers as vessels of the nineteenth century or earlier. Yet the graceful, multi-masted beauties of our imaginations actually sailed on into the 1950s before they disappeared from the seas forever. Veteran sailor Spencer Apollonio has selected from little-known sources some of the best-written and most representative accounts of life aboard the last of these ships that sailed around the southern tip of South America --- the fabled "Cape Horners." Written by officers, crewmen, and passengers aboard American, British, and Finnish ves
. Boothbay Harbor, Maine, is his homeport. About the Author Spencer Apollonio is a marine biologist who has sailed a traditional wooden gaff-rigged sloop along the coast of Maine for more than twenty years
Boothbay Harbor, Maine, is his homeport. . Spencer Apollonio is a marine biologist who has sailed a traditional wooden gaff-rigged sloop along the coast of Maine for more than twenty years
Informative, Detailed. Truly excellent Reading I had been looking for a good book describing what it was really like to sail on fully rigged Ships for a long time, and this may be the best book I have found so far. I have read everything from "Two Years before Mast" to the recently published "Flying Cloud", but this is really what I was looking for. It seems that most accounts of sail. Informative, Detailed. Truly excellent Reading Walter O. Koenig I had been looking for a good book describing what it was really like to sail on fully rigged Ships for a long time, and this may be the best book I have found so far. I have read everything from "Two Years before Mast" to the recently published "Flying Cloud", but this is really what I was looking for. It seems that most accounts of sail. Piper said Spencer did a great job of. Buy it and read it. Then you won't be in a rush to buy a clipper or full rigged ship even if one pops up on eBay.All of the excerpts are well written and interesting. Spencer did a great job of compiling