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Author : Patrick M. Royce
Publisher : ProStar Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780911284072
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Royce's Sailing Illustrated written by Patrick M. Royce and published by ProStar Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Hayden
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781663224040
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Tall Ship Sailor written by Dan Hayden and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To a regular passerby, the ship seemed as if it was a lonesome thing, abandoned and forgotten. The disarray of normally taut lines and sheets that hung loosely from their spars suggested the ship had been inactive and somewhat neglected. A traditionally active sailing vessel, normally full of human activity, was now quiet and dormant, aching for action and people to occupy her decks. The wind from the busy harbor whistled by her wooden masts and through her hundreds of lines making an eerie sound. The gentle rocking of the ship creaked in unison as the waves lapped against the wharf's old wooden piers. The Defiant waited. Soon there would be an opportunity.
Author : Pamela Sisman Bitterman
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299201937
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Sailing to the Far Horizon written by Pamela Sisman Bitterman and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-08-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tall ship Sofia sank off New Zealand’s North Island in February 1982, stranding its crew on disabled life rafts for five days. They struggled to survive as any realistic hope of rescue dwindled. Just a few years earlier, Pamela Sisman Bitterman was a naïve swabbie looking for adventure, signing on with a sailing co-operative taking this sixty-year-old, 123-foot, three-masted gaff-topsail schooner around the globe. The aged Baltic trader had been rescued from a wooden boat graveyard in Sweden and reincarnated as a floating commune in the 1960s. By the time Sofia went down, Bitterman had become an able seaman, promoted first to bos’un and then acting first mate, immersing herself in this life of a tall ship sailor, world traveler, and survivor.
Author : Romola Anderson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486149528
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book A Short History of the Sailing Ship written by Romola Anderson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amply illustrated book traces evolution of the sailing ship over the course of 6,000 years — from vessels of ancient Egypt to full-rigged clipper ships of the 19th century. 20 halftones and 134 figures.
Author : Daniel S. Parrott
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780071435451
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Tall Ships Down written by Daniel S. Parrott and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2004 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Technologically outmoded and once nearly swept from the seas, tall ships have experienced a fifty-year renaissance as sail training and passenger vessels, and we are the richer for it. After all, what sight has more power to stir the soul than a tall ship under sail with its acres of canvas and miles of rigging? But that resurgence has had a tragic side, and professional mariner and maritime scholar Dan Parrott explores it in Tall Ships Down, a groundbreaking reconstruction of the losses of the 316-foot barque Pamir in 1957; the 117-foot brigantine Albatross in 1961; the 117-foot barque Marques in 1984; the 137-foot Pride of Baltimore in 1986; and the 125-foot brig Maria Asumpta in 1995. Together, these disasters claimed 112 lives." "The stories of these majestic ships have been subject to mystery and distortion. In some instances even the survivors could not explain what went wrong, and in others the official inquiries failed to articulate the most critical lessons hidden in the sudden, terrible catastrophes - until now." "Parrott traces the history of each ship from its building and early career through subsequent owners' modifications. His vivid re-creations of each final voyage dissect the circumstances of loss from forensic evidence, expert testimony, survivors' memories, and his own considerable experience. Carefully examined, the evidence shows that, contrary to some official findings, ignorance of and disregard for age-old practices of seamanship were at least as responsible for the tragedies as "acts of God." In some instances the seeds of a ship's ultimate undoing were planted years before, as ill-considered structural changes, rig modifications, and "mission creep" eroded its stability and seaworthiness. Cargo loose in holds, hatches unsecured at sea, freeing ports timbered shut, failure to preserve proper sea room - these and other factors emerge from Parrott's analysis as contributing factors." --Book Jacket.
Author : J. Dennis Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578090757
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (97 download)
Download or read book America's Privateer: Lynx and the War of 1812 written by J. Dennis Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rigel Crockett
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307368831
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Fair Wind and Plenty of It written by Rigel Crockett and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Godforsaken Sea and In the Heart of the Sea, Fair Wind and Plenty of It is a virtuoso debut by a sailor turned scribe -- a must-read for lovers of nautical adventure. On November 25th, 1997, the barque Picton Castle, a three-masted, square-rigged tall ship, headed out from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on a voyage around the world. Aboard ship a shifting crew of thirty, a combination of professional sailors and paying crew who were out $32,500 for the privilege of working “crew before the mast,” would travel for over a year and half, calling in at ports as exotic and varied as Aruba, Somoa, Bali and Zanzibar. Fair Wind and Plenty of It tells the story of an obsession, as Captain Dan Moreland, driven by a desire to make his mark in the world of traditional sail, rallies forces to convert a sixty-nine-year-old North Sea trawler into a seaworthy tall ship, and then assembles the crew to sail it. It’s the story of the uneasy balance that is achieved on board, where insubordination and rancour must be kept in line among a crew whose only connection is their common desire to be part of this journey. And it is Rigel’s story: a man who was conceived the day his father laid the keel for his first boat, whose mother was a sailmaker, and who has to reconcile his family legacy with his own need to understand why he must take part in the voyage of the barque Picton Castle. In Fair Wind and Plenty of It, Rigel Crockett tells a tale of shipboard camaraderie, gut-wrenching struggles and the near-mutinies that marked the year-and-a half journey -- where fellow shipmates proved to be as perilous as the ever-present sea.
Author : Richard Runciman Terry
Publisher : Fireship Press
ISBN 13 : 1934757616
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (347 download)
Download or read book The Way of the Ship written by Richard Runciman Terry and published by Fireship Press. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a gold mine for anyone who wants to know how the sea shanty was authentically used and sung." They say that sea shanties-authentic sea shanties-are no more. They died with the sailing ship, and will never again be heard in their original form. Or... will they? Richard Runciman Terry was born in 1865 to a family that had been seafarers as far back as the family history could be traced. As a child, he grew up hearing shanties sung to him by his uncles and grand-uncles-all tall-ship sailors. As a boy, he was constantly found among ships, learning more shanties, songs, and sea lore. As an adult he became one of the premier musicians of his day, as a noted organist, choir director and musicologist; but he never forgot the songs that originally inspired his love of music. Just after the turn of the century, he decided to capture as much of that dying musical heritage as he could. He sought out his relatives, and their friends, and the friends of their friends-coaxing and cajoling them into singing their repertoire of shanties so he could write them down. What he wanted was to hear the way shanties were sung, by the men who had actually worked the tall ships, and for whom the shanty had been an integral part of their everyday lives. He wanted to record the songs exactly as those men sung them, so they would not be lost to future generations. In 1921, he published his archive in the first of two books, the second one coming in 1926. Both long out of print books, with his explanatory notes and annotations, are presented here. 65 Authentic Shanties from the Age of Sail
Author : William Clark Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book A sailor's sweetheart written by William Clark Russell and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Franco Giorgetti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788854403123
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Legendary Sailing Ships written by Franco Giorgetti and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from the unique perspective of an architect and sailboat designer who is also an ardent sailor, this volume traces the origins and development of great sailing ships. Enthusiasts will be fascinated by the meticulous research and multimedia presentation of the milestones in the history of the sailing ship. A spectacular photographic catalog of the most famous and impressive ships, this handsome volume documents the milestones in sailing, presenting magnificent photographs and a detailed analysis of all the great sailing ships, some of which still ply the seas to this day. From antiquity to present-day, this book is organized chronologically, delving into the origins of the great sailing ships, from the earliest galleons dating to the early 1500s, to the clippers of the nineteenth century, to the windjammers of the twentieth century, and the future of sailing. Franco Giorgetti provides in-depth information on ship-building techniques, including the secrets of the world's foremost ship builders.
Author : William Clark Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)
Download or read book A Sailor's Sweetheart written by William Clark Russell and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel S. Parrott
Publisher : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780071390927
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Tall Ships Down written by Daniel S. Parrott and published by International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all its soul-stirring romance, the tall-ship renaissance has a tragic side, and professional mariner and maritime scholar Parrott explores it in this groundbreaking reconstruction of five controversial sea disasters of the past half century. 45 photos. 5 maps.
Author : Dan Hayden
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 166322403X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Tall Ship Sailor written by Dan Hayden and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To a regular passerby, the ship seemed as if it was a lonesome thing, abandoned and forgotten. The disarray of normally taut lines and sheets that hung loosely from their spars suggested the ship had been inactive and somewhat neglected. A traditionally active sailing vessel, normally full of human activity, was now quiet and dormant, aching for action and people to occupy her decks. The wind from the busy harbor whistled by her wooden masts and through her hundreds of lines making an eerie sound. The gentle rocking of the ship creaked in unison as the waves lapped against the wharf’s old wooden piers. The Defiant waited. Soon there would be an opportunity.
Author : Chuck Fowler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738548142
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Tall Ships on Puget Sound written by Chuck Fowler and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tall sailing ships came to the Pacific Northwest beginning in the mid-1700s. Met by native Salish people, the ships brought Spanish, British, Russian, and American explorers, as well as settlers and entrepreneurs to the Puget Sound region. Over the next two centuries, during boom and bust periods, these majestic vessels continued to ply the waters of Puget Sound. Today the proud tall ships operate in a training and education rather than commercial context.
Author : Frank Brookesmith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book I Remember the Tall Ships written by Frank Brookesmith and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin H. Daniels
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870212512
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Eagle Seamanship written by Edwin H. Daniels and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A convenient pocket training manual for square-rigger sailing. Written for cadets serving on the U.S. Coast Guard training barque Eagle.
Author : C. Keith Wilbur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tall Ships of the World written by C. Keith Wilbur and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stem-to-stern exploration of the most magnificent ships to ply the sea offers a wealth of information on the 150-year history of tall ships -- how they were built, how they operate, and what it is like to live and work aboard them.
