Presented in a slipcase this is a photographic collection of the most beautiful boats designed by William Fife between the end of the last century and the first decade of this. They are, this book reveals, considered amongst the most elegant, and successful racing boats of their time, ever built. Included are photographs detailing the woodworking, the instruments and interiors of the boats reflecting the history and the ancient charm of these yachts which perfectly restored, still continue to plough the oceans of the world. There is also a history of the Fife family.

William Fife : Master of the Classic Yacht

Engineering & Transportation

Pace, Franco

Transportation

Wooden Boat Publications

Clothbound, dustjacketed Originally re-published in 1985

Small Yachts: Their Design and Construction Exemplified by the Ruling Types of Modern Practice

Kunhardt, Charles P

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.

Mariner's Book of Days-1994 Calendar

Wooden Boat Magazine

Literature & Fiction

Photographs by Benjamin Mendlowitz; Design by Sherry Streeter

2026 Calendar of Wooden Boats

WoodenBoat Magazine

Mariner's Book of Days 1995 Desk Calendar

HUNT, Mary

Spectre, Peter H.

You'll enjoy this? part story, part boatbuilding manual of a small, beetle-cat-like boat, from a legendary designer with probably more of his creations built than any other person. You'll find out not only how the boat is built, but also how the design came to be from someone with a (long!) lifetime of fooling around with boats. As told from Toad's Landing, on an island off British Columbia, it becomes quite apparent that whimsy and fun are not limited to young boys and girls. The first thing you may notice about Tom Cat is the handsome cuddy. The next thing to realize is she is constructed with a combination of the traditional-plank-on-frame (carvel) and modern-epoxy for the seams. The result is a rugged boat which doesn't require the swelling of planks, or the recaulking of seams in the years to come. If you are just too pure a traditionalist for epoxy, of course you can plank and caulk.

The Making of Tom Cat: A Fathom Wide, by Two-Plus Long, and Half a Fathom Deep

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Garden, William

Crafts & Hobbies

A World of Boating

Sports & Outdoors

Water Sports

A perennial favorite, reprinted for a new generation. Jan Adkins' young adult novel sends a spunky but alienated teenager back through time in "a storm without rain" to his New England home town in 1904, where he becomes the best friend, shipmate and co-conspirator to his own grandfather at his age. More than a fantasy, the town and times and most of the people the boys meet are factual. The textures, smells, sounds and sights of a vanished era return in this compelling narrative. What a young man learns about family, love and the march of time might just affect you as well.

A Storm Without Rain: A Novel in Time

Children's Books

Adkins, Jan

World of Boating 2006 12-month wall calendar

Calendars

Onne Van Der Wal

Boats & Ships

2005 Book of the Year, Hobbies &amp; Crafts, Silver Medal winner, from ForeWord magazine. What makes this landscape-formatted book unique is you are actually seeing each and every of the thirty-five pages (albeit in reduced size) of the plans which sell for $125. And, these plans are highly detailed, a tribute to Gifford's industrial design background. Gifford has added a bit of design commentary as well as information about sailing Marisol in his homewaters of Auckland, New Zealand. Measured metrically, she's a v-bottomed dagger-boarder built in glued-lapstrake plywood, with sawn frames. The boat is a 12'6 sailing skiff, that can handle rugged water.

The Marisol Skiff

Jackson, Gifford

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