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Sailing Gaffers - Stories from 50 Years of the Old Gaffers Association (Paperback)
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Sailing Gaffers - Stories from 50 Years of the Old Gaffers Association (Paperback)
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Created fifty years ago after a three-way conversation in a public
house, the Old Gaffers Association grew into a group of enthusiasts
who rescued a vital part of our maritime heritage from almost
certain extinction. This jaunty celebration, lavishly illustrated,
demonstrates how gaff-rigged sailing vessels are alive in a way no
other boat could ever be. In this book their owners tell of their
stylish, characterful and sea-kindly craft - and some of their
adventures. There are tales, too, of solo sailors and families
embarking on voyages across the oceans that have seen the Old
Gaffers Association become a world-wide community. Jim Rockeller,
owner of the Bald Mountain Boat Works in Camden, Maine, and
instigator of the first OGA group in America, wrote of the OGA in
1968: 'Membership requirements are simple. One needn't know the
difference between a throat and a peak halyard; one need only know
that putting to sea in a gaff-rigged vessel is a special kind of
magic not found in other kinds of sailing.' This magic of
traditional sailing has cast its spell much closer to home, too -
simply messing about in boats, alone, joining in regattas or
cruising with families and friends. This book will delight every
boating enthusiast. As the cheers greeting the traditional boats
that graced The Queen's Jubilee Thames Pageant showed, they bring
out the salty seadog in us all.
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