Last of the Cape Horners : Firsthand Accounts from the Final Days of the Commercial Tall Ships

[Brasseys] ☆ Last of the Cape Horners : Firsthand Accounts from the Final Days of the Commercial Tall Ships ✓ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Last of the Cape Horners : Firsthand Accounts from the Final Days of the Commercial Tall Ships When we think of commercial sailing, most of us are apt to picture square-riggers as vessels of the nineteenth century or earlier. Veteran sailor Spencer Apollonio has selected from little-known sources some of the best-written and most representative accounts of life aboard the last of these ships that sailed around the southern tip of South America --- the fabled Cape Horners. Written by officers, crewmen, and passengers aboard American, British, and Finnish vessels, they provide a realistic

Author	:	Brassey's
Rating	:	4.56 (631 Votes)
Asin	:	157488283X
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	296 Pages
Publish Date	:	0000-00-00
Language	:	English

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Spencer Apollonio is a marine biologist who has sailed a traditional wooden gaff-rigged sloop along the coast of Maine for more than twenty years. . Boothbay Harbor, Maine, is his homeport

Boothbay Harbor, Maine, is his homeport. About the Author Spencer Apollonio is a marine biologist who has sailed a traditional wooden gaff-rigged sloop along the coast of Maine for more than twenty years.

When we think of commercial sailing, most of us are apt to picture square-riggers as vessels of the nineteenth century or earlier. Veteran sailor Spencer Apollonio has selected from little-known sources some of the best-written and most representative accounts of life aboard the last of these ships that sailed around the southern tip of South America --- the fabled "Cape Horners." Written by officers, crewmen, and passengers aboard American, British, and Finnish vessels, they provide a realistic picture of a maritime era the likes of which will not ever be seen again.. Yet the graceful, multi-masted beauties of our imaginations actually sailed on into the 1950s before they disappeared from the seas forever

Informative, Detailed. Truly excellent Reading Walter O. Koenig I had been looking for a good book describing what it was really like to sail on fully rigged Ships for a long time, and this may be the best book I have found so far. I have read everything from "Two Years before Mast" to the recently published "Flying Cloud", but this is really what I was looking . Informative, Detailed. Truly excellent Reading Walter O. Koenig I had been looking for a good book describing what it was really like to sail on fully rigged Ships for a long time, and this may be the best book I have found so far. I have read everything from "Two Years before Mast" to the recently published "Flying Cloud", but this is really what I was looking . "Spencer did a great job of" according to Piper. Buy it and read it. Then you won't be in a rush to buy a clipper or full rigged ship even if one pops up on eBay.All of the excerpts are well written and interesting. Spencer did a great job of compiling