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Ticonderoga. Tales Of An Enchanted Yacht

Door Jack A. Somer

Categorie
Schepen & Scheepvaart
Boeknummer
#216622
Titel
Ticonderoga. Tales Of An Enchanted Yacht
Auteur
Somer, Jack A.
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Mystic Seaport Museum USA
Jaar van uitgave
1997
ISBN10
0393046133
ISBN13
9780393046137
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
Launched as Tioga in 1936, this glorious ketch finished 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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Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 38,00

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