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CLASSIFIED ADS NEXT VOYAGE WILL BE DIFFERENT by Captain Thomas E. Henry. Acco unts from my 37 years at sea. Available through Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. Also available, CRACKING HITLER'S ATLANTIC WALL. Call 772 287 5603 EST or email: Arcome@aol.com. "San Francisco's Little Boat that Could." The hisrory of the beautiful Monterey fishing boats of Fisherman's Wharf is available at Barnes and Noble. Thousands century old ship postcards, ephemera - in San Francisco; Ph. 4 15 586-9386, kprag@planeteria.net. Elegant Ship Models. Individually handcrafted custom scale model boats. Jean Preckel: www.preckelboats.com or call: 304 432-7202.
John Stobart Prints "Maiden Lane in New York in 1800" $5 , 100 framed, "Packett Orpheus Leaving East River 1835" $2,300. Thaddeus Myslak Phone 434 384-8337; email: sookie24503@comcasr. net. CUSTOM SCRIMSHAW on antique ivo ry. Made by hand in the USA by me, Peter Driscoll. www.scrimstore.com. Free brochure chipsmay@aol.com; Ph . 336 998-0459. Jonesport Nautical Antiques. We offer wo rld class nautical antiques & nautical gifts (old & new); 800 996-5655 or on the web at www.nauticalantiques.com. Custom Ship Models Half Hulls. Free Catalog. Spencer, Box 1034, Q uakertown, PA 18951.
BOOKS: It Didn't Happen on My 'Watch and Scuttlebutt by George E. Murphy. Memoirs of forty-three years with United States Lines aboard cargo and passenger ships. Anecdotes of captains, chief engineers, crew members and the company office. Web site: www.gem urphy.com; email: gemurphy@carroll.com.
1812 Privateer FAME of Salem, MA Sails Daily May - October. Ph. 978 7297600; www.SchoonerFame.co m.
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Europe and the West Coast of North America. Bay Ship & Yacht operates one of the Bay area's major shipyards, providing services to commercial vessels, yachts, and traditional sailing ships. Two years ago, the shipyard completed a $9.6 million restoration of the 219-fr. wooden lumber schooner C. A. Thayer (1895) , one of the park's other historic vessels. (www. nps.gov/safr) ... Zeb-Schooner Life, a film documentary produced by Detrick Lawrence Productions of Edgartown, MA, has won the prestigious Best-ofShow award from the California-based Accolade Competition. The film explores the life and times of Captain Zeb Tilton
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Schooner Life and his schooner Alice S. Wentworth, in which he kept alive a way of life-moving freight under sail, long after others had moved on to power vessels. The film includes mo re than thirty interviews with Tilton's contemporaries and schooner experts and historians from aro und New England. Zeb-Schooner Life is based on the book, Zeb, Celebrated Schooner Captain of Martha's Vineyard, by Polly Burroughs. (Book ISBN 9780762738427; order the DVD and learn more about the film at www.zebtilton .com) ... Keep your eyes peeled for a new book, Caddell Dry Dock: 100 Years Harborside, on the history of the company by the Noble Maritime Collection's Executive Director, Erin Urban. When the company turned 100 in 2003, the Noble Maritime Collection did a show abo ut it at the museum. Photographer Michael Falco, whose spectacular images are reproduced througho ut the book, spent three weeks at the shipyard documenting the dry docking of a
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