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This is a slightly outsize (8.75"xl 1.25"), well designed and well printed book consistent with International Marine's high standards, organized so that the casual boat watcher will derive as much pleasure as the yac ht historian and student of design.
doorway to a vital heritage." - W A LTER C RON KI TE
This st irri ng one- hou r doc ume n ta ry o n ma n's batl lc to get aro und Ca pe H orn in ta ll wind- dri ven sh ips was rev iewed by Wa lter C ron kit e in Sea History 16, a nd too k th e fi lm ma ke rs fro m New Yo rk lO Ba th , Lo nd o n , Sa n Fra nc isco, th e Fa lkl a nd Isla nd s and Ca pe H o rn itself, see ki ng o ut one o r th e grea t ad ve nture sto ries o f a ll t ime. The film in cl ucl cs bo th hi sto ri c a nd co nte m po ra ry foo tage. It is na rra ted by J aso n R obards, with a titl e so ng by Go rd on Lightfoot. "Gh os ts o r Ca pe H o rn" is ava il a ble fo r sale o r ren ta l fro m :
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Five Historic Ships From Plan to Model, by George S. Parker (Cornell Maritime Press, Centerville, Maryland, 1980, 358 pp., ill. photographs, detail sketches and plan inserts, $17.50). A very detailed book giving practically step-by-step - instructions for building models of a late 18th century merchant brig turned warship, an early 19th century ship-rigged sloop-of-war, a mid-19th century North Atlantic passenger packet, two early 20th century schooners, a 5-masted coasting vessel and the first knockabout Banks fisherman, all of them American craft. The book starts with a discussion of building and shaping a hull , followed by separate chapters on square and fore-andaft rig designs. Then the reader is taken by individual chapters through finishing a hull, maki ng and installing rails, houses, hatches and other deck structures and furniture, making guns, boats, " ironwork," spars and rigging, ending up with mountings and display cases. The last half of the book has separate chapters in great detail on building each particular model, starting with a short history of the original vessel. And the book ends with short chapters on tools and materials, a set of detail plates and, an unusual feature in most modelling books, a complete belaying pin plan of each vessel for those who wish to bend sails to their craft. While the instructions are complete and clear, this reviewer feels that some of the author's building methods are "doing it the hard way," but as with the No. I seafaring axiom "different ships, different long splices," the result is the same . The only flaw noted is the author's misuse of words and terms; for example, "astern" indicates something beyond the back end of a vessel, but he uses it instead of "abaft" or "aft of" for items on board. ROBERT G. HERBERT.JR. Zachary Goes Ground Fishing On the Trawler Lucille 8., by Alice True Larkin, illus. by Abbey Williams (Down East Books, Camden ME, 1982, 60 pp., illus., paperback, $5.95). Groundfishing in the Gulf of Maine, Zachary learns about navigation, nets and fish-a fine book for young people, with wonderful illustrations . SEA HISTORY, AUTUMN 1982
The St. Mary off Cape Horn,
by J ohn Sioba n
BATTLESHIP SAILOR
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By Theodore C. Mason Foreword by Edward L Beach This vigorous, highly readable portrait of the enlisted man's life in the U.S. Navy of the 1940s is a rarity among the cou ntless books written on the period. The author, who as a young man served aboard the battleship California, experi enced firsthand the devastation at Pearl Harbor, where thousands of his fellow sailors perished. From his hazardous battle station in the open "birdbath" atop the mainmast, Ted Mason had a panoramic view of the Japanese attack and its aftermath, which included the sinking of his own ship. The result of thi s experience is much more than a personal memoir; it is a unique and invaluable record of a way of life that vanished along with the great gray battleship. From a third-deck perspective, Mason examines the often rigid hierarchical system that segregated the com missioned ranks from the sailors. Officers are described as remote figures, some of whom seemed to be more concerned with protocol and discipline than with the combat readiness of their ships, but mostly the author concentrates on enlisted men - the hard and the compassionate, the brawlers and the poets, the fledgling seamen and the old salts - whose comradeship he treasured. These men are portrayed with such insight and skill that they will linger in the readers memory long after this book has been put down 1982. 352 pages. 45 illustrations. List Price: $15.95.
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