Year: 1987 Language: English Author: Robinson B. Genre: History Publisher: Dodd,Mead And Co Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 312 Description: This anthology captures the adventures, legends, and thrills of yachting for seasoned seafarers and landlocked dreamers alike. In stories and articles from the past 80 years of Yachting magazine — the “bible” of the sport since 1907 — readers learn of the exploits of such yachting legends as Sir Thomas Lipton, Bill Taylor, Bus Mosbacher, Francis Chichester, and Ted Turner. They witness the great yachting events, from Kaiser’s Ocean Race of 1905 to Australia’s startling victory in the 1983 America’s Cup. They cruise with President Roosevelt along the coast of Maine in 1933, and they venture to the Solomons, around Cape Horn, and to other faraway locations. They relive the wartime and peacetime yachting adventures, and understand the sport’s technological advances through the eyes of the great yachtsmen and yachtswomen, and through the words of such literary figures as Cleveland Amory, Catherine Drinker Bowen, and John Hersey. All the selections included were chosen for their excitement and adventure and for their appeal to today.
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80 years of Yachting
Language: English
Author: Robinson B.
Genre: History
Publisher: Dodd,Mead And Co
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 312
Description: This anthology captures the adventures, legends, and thrills of yachting for seasoned seafarers and landlocked dreamers alike. In stories and articles from the past 80 years of Yachting magazine — the “bible” of the sport since 1907 — readers learn of the exploits of such yachting legends as Sir Thomas Lipton, Bill Taylor, Bus Mosbacher, Francis Chichester, and Ted Turner.
They witness the great yachting events, from Kaiser’s Ocean Race of 1905 to Australia’s startling victory in the 1983 America’s Cup. They cruise with President Roosevelt along the coast of Maine in 1933, and they venture to the Solomons, around Cape Horn, and to other faraway locations.
They relive the wartime and peacetime yachting adventures, and understand the sport’s technological advances through the eyes of the great yachtsmen and yachtswomen, and through the words of such literary figures as Cleveland Amory, Catherine Drinker Bowen, and John Hersey.
All the selections included were chosen for their excitement and adventure and for their appeal to today.
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