writes with feeling about the great designers of the era, among whom were Starling Burgess, Bill Harris, and Ray Hunt. And the boat builders with whom he worked speak to the quality of construction that he always sought: Pierce and Kilburn, Graves, Lawley, Casey, and Bud Mcintosh among many others. Then there are the boats themselves. The list is a veritable peerage of pre-World War II yachts, many of which , it is good to report, are still sailing 50 years after their birth . Just the names, to this reviewer at least, evoke an emotional response: Nina , Highland Light, Mistress , Brilliant, theMalabars, Fearless, Victoria , the Fisher's Islanders, Teregram , Barlovento, Jolie Brise, Dorade, Escape, and finally Java-the first of the fabulously successful Concordia yawls (your reviewer owned one for 12 happy years) . To me, one of the most appealing and completely genuine vignettes in the book is the profile of Martin Jackson-fisherman, sailor, boat builder, boat man, harbormaster, friend and confidant, a person held in the highest esteem and affection by all of us who remember him in Padanararn (South Dartmouth}, Massachusetts. And the book offers an abundance of lively anecdotes drawn from the life. There was, for example, the return from Bermuda in 1930 aboard Larry Grinnell's Flying Cloud III which was watched in consternation from on shore as she tried to beat to windward carrying a huge balloon jib instead of a far more efficient working jib. Seems there were many bottles ofliquor carefully furled in the workingjib and lashed to the bowsprit. The strange bulges seemed not to concern the customs man! All in all this book is a delight; the next thing we need is a companion volume for the years 1941-84 for which this reviewer is eagerly waiting. THOMAS HALE
Mr. Hale, Vice Chairman ofthe Society, is the owner of the Martha's Vineyard Shipyard. He too learned to sail in Padanaram and Buzz.ard's Bay.
The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail, by Neil Hollander and Harald Mertes (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1984, 142pp, illus, $19.95). This remarkable and handsome book brings the reader right into the world of the few remaining men who make their living under working sale. (A companion videocassette narrated in resonant tones by Orson Welles is also available.) The authors, who are writers, filmmakers and yachtsmen, do not approach the last sailors as academic subjects but as people who, whether they like it or not, are preserving a way of life that is almost gone from the world . SEA HISTORY, FALL 1984
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