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Featuring contributions from some of the most famous and diverse
figures in the history of yachting and sailing, from Thomas Fleming
Day and C. Andrade Jr. to John Alden and L. Francis Herreshoff, The
Rudder Treasury is a timeless record of decades' worth of
accumulated experience. This volume encompasses some of the best
articles ever to appear in the legendary Rudder magazine, the
premier nautical publication from the first half of the twentieth
century. It contains a treasure trove of influential writings on a
varied and exhaustive array of topics. The four sections contain
WInter Reading (all sorts of cruising adventures), The Dream Ships
(plans and descriptions of various boats by well-known designers),
the Care and Feeding of Yachtsmen , and The Hurrah's Nest, a
bilgeful of dogmatic advice, arbitrary opinions, and clever devices
and methods. This anthology is an invaluable resource, representing
a wealth of wisdom unavailable for the past fifty years.
All the information necessary for preparing to plank, hanging and
fastening and finishing off. Every type of wooden planking system,
technique and method is covered along with all fastening options.
Advice and illustrations all based on specific projects large and
small.
Since its inception in 1992, The Mariner s Book of Days has been
hailed as the best, most entertaining nautical desk diary and
calendar to see print. It is also a valuable reference in its own
right; each annual edition completely different from its
predecessor has become a collector s item. On each right-hand page
is a day- by-day accounting of historical events and space for
daily notes, appointments, and reminders. On each left-hand page is
a fascinating miscellany of what Robert Louis Stevenson once called
the entertainment of fooling among boats. The Mariner s Book of
Days is a daily, weekly, monthly, annual reminder of the things we
love most about the watery world: the pleasures of choosing,
building and maintaining our own boats; the intricacies of
seamanship and navigation; the development of nautical knowledge;
the traditions of the sea; the evolution of a way of life. It is
organized in a generally topical manner yet has a labyrinthine
quality, not unlike the way we think about the sea when we are so
unfortunate as to be away from it. One thing leads to another and
then another, and before we know it we re building a boat with
Howard Chapelle, or sailing around the world with Joshua Slocum, or
having a drink with Captain John Smith, or, perhaps best of all,
dreaming about boats, ships, and the sea with Wynken, Blynken, and
Nod. The Mariner s Book of Days is an annual treasure. Year by year
it takes us on a new and different 365-day imaginary voyage through
time, an encyclopedic passage through the maritime past, present
and future.
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