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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 797.14
EAN num: 9780393046137
ISBN number: 0393046133
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 256
Printing Date: 1997-11
Publishing house: W. W. Norton & Company
Sale Popularity Level: 948983
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Launched as Tioga in 1936, this glorious ketch finished very first in twenty-four of her initial thirty-seven races. Renamed Ticonderoga in 1946, she went on to set more elapsed-time records than any ocean racer in history. Ticonderoga held more than thirty course records in races on several oceans, surpassing even the best performances of the hard-driven nineteenth-century clipper ships. But Ticonderoga wasn't designed for racing. Her creator, L. Francis Herreshoff, shaped her for genteel 'afternoon sailing', giving her uncommon elegance of form with a clipper bow, elliptical transom, raked rig, gilded garnish, and a bathtub. It is these qualities of unsurpassed opulence and beauty, combined with her astonishing speed, that have made Big Ti so incomparable.
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Well done. I sailed on many of the Johnson family yachts. This book was a great reminder of how many good times I had.
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Since the book was puiblished, in 1997, you have shown the wrong dust jacket in your listing and review. Please hcnage it as it will certainly enhance sales.
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It's a pity that a detailed set of architects drawings is not included, as well as drawings of her various interior configurations. Also, the dust jacket on my edition features a painting by T. Thompson in which the proportions are all wrong and the boat seems 100 feet long, not 72. Apart from that, it's a wonderful book and I reccomend it unreservedly.
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More than your classic coffee-table book, Jack does a wonderful job tracing this boat's history from her own perspective, as well as from her owners and associates as well. The photography alone is worth the price of admission. Her launch photo is spectacular. My only disappointment is with the final chapter(s), wherein her story does seem to take on a bit of a sappy note.
When you've finished this book you will realize that the only real boats are those made of wood. Anything else is just .....well, plastic I guess!
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