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All at Sea: Twenty Years at the Helm of Tall Ships
Contributor(s): Jones, Dominick (Author)

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 ISBN: 0786475803     ISBN-13: 9780786475803
Publisher: McFarland & Company
OUR PRICE: $26.25  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Boating
Dewey: 797.109
LCCN: 2013018392
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.9" W x 9.9" L (1.10 lbs) 276 pages
Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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The true story of how a family brought a wooden cargo ship back into the age of sail. Cecilia bought the first ship, a Thames barge, for family vacations--there were six children. Dominick bought the successor, a Baltic Trader, and then found this would be his career. Twenty years elapsed between the first days of the barge and the last day of the Baltic. From knowing virtually nothing about sailing ships, the author traces getting to grips with the problems of making sails on board, skipping between sandbanks, dragging anchor, losing a mast, crossing the Atlantic, fixing self-steering, avoiding hurricanes, hauling out for repairs, and his major preoccupation: failing to sink. For 13 years, the author had no other home, and for half that period never spent a night ashore.
 
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