A sailing journey through time and place begins with the schooner designed by L Francis Herreshoff and Bruce Kirby's sharpie ketch. This is a "reader's book".
I grew up in and around the yachts and sailing community of Port Philip Bay, and here it is, a book full of the boats and places I knew as a kid. Ileola, Refuge Cove, Deal Island and so much more.
It begins with two wooden boats: the schooner designed by L. Francis Herreshoff and Bruce Kirby’s sharpie ketch. From these two float tales of then and now – stories of sail and sea in the Australian south, of design and artistic craftsmanship, builders, teacher-mentors, sprung planks, loss and the rescue of ageing boats. Like an ocean meanders, each tale breaks out from the main current, taking the reader on a sinuous journey from New England in the USA to the ‘inland sea’ of Port Phillip, across Bass Strait to Tasmania and the Southern Ocean.
This product was added to our catalog on Friday 08 March, 2013.