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KEEP THE TRADITION ALIVE ENJOY A 3 OR 6 DAY CRUISE ABOARD AN HISTORIC VESSEL Departing each Monday-Friday. Rates from $275-$545 Group rates available Tune & September. For information: Box 617-SH, Camden Maine 04843 • (207) 236-2938 • I 800 736-7981.
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Join our epic long-distance voyages aboard two spectacular square-riggers. Six legs available to individuals, Oct 91Aug 92: Australia around Cape Horn; on to Europe; on to US via Puerto Rico with Columbus fleet; tall ship race back to Europe. Excellent vessels in top condition; participation encouraged. We offer educational and adventure sailing programs worldwide. Contact: OCEAN VOYAGES 1709 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA 94965 Ph : 415-332-4681 ·Fax : 415-332-7460
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INVENI PORT AM Louis KENEDY Captain Louis Kenedy , legendary schoonerrnan, died on July 25 in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, at age 81. Born in Pelham, New York, he grew up racing sailboats on Long Island Sound. At age 21, in the depths of the Depression, he went to Lunenberg, Nova Scotia to buy a trading schooner, and so began a career that will undoubtedly be talked of as long as the East Coast schooner trades are remembered. He kept on while the schooner trades died around him, sailing from 1932 to 1954 between Nova Scotia and US ports ot the West Indies, with side trips across the Atlantic. In his schooner Abundance he once reached Madeira in 14 days from Nova Scotia--a record that still stands. He was shipwrecked early on, and in the dark days of World War II, at age 32, he lost his 50-ft schooner Wawaloam to a German U-boat. Like many of his brother skippers he could spin a good yam, and published a four-part series on his adventures in the Saturday Evening Post in 1951 . As we in NMHS had reason to know, he had another sailorly quality; generosity to those keeping up the traditions of sail. His longtime friend Art Hansen, a notable sailorrnan himself, writes: "When we were having Joily Tar built he brought all the masts and spars and hardware down from Lunenberg on his three master, and never charged a cent." PS
FRANK G. G. CARR, CB 1903-1991 An appreciation of the life of Mr. Carr, founder of the World Ship Trust and International Chairman of the NMHS American Ship Trust, will appear in the next Sea History dedicated to his memory. Statement filed I 0-22-9 1required bytheAct of Aug. 12, 1970, Sec. 3685, Title 39, US Code: Sea History is published quarterly at 5 John Walsh Blvd., Peekskill NY I 0566; minimum subscription price is $15. Publisher and editor is Peter Stanford; managing editor is NonnaStanford;ownerisNational MaritimeHistorical Society, a non-profit corporation; all are located at 5 John Walsh Blvd., Peekskill NY 10566. During the 12 monthspreceding October 1991theaverage numberof: A) copies printed each issue was 50,521 ; B) paid circulation was I ) sold through dealers, carriers and countersales 359; 2) mail subscriptions 10,218; c) total paid circulationwas I0,576;D)freedistribution,samples, complimentary copies were34,599;E) totaldistribution was 45,I 75; F) copies not distributed were I ) office use 5,346; 2) return from news agents O;G) total= 50,52 1. The actual numbers for the single issue preceding October 1991are: A) total number printed 50,405; B) paid circulation was 1) sales through dealers, carriers and counter sales 390;2) mail subscriptions 10,184; C) total paid circulation 10,574; D) free distribution, samples, complimentary copies were 35,737; E) total distribution was 46,311 ;F) copies not distributed were 1) office use4,094;2)retum from news agentsO; G) total =50,405; 1certify that theabove statements are correct and complete. (signed) Nonna Stanford, VP, National Maritime Historical Society. SEA HISTORY 59, AUTUMN 1991