by Edgar L. Bloomster
Full definitions and descriptions plus sketches of all types of sail craft thoughout the world make this a must have book! The author covers every type of craft designed to sail; the war ships and the cargo ships. He describes the varying conditions and needs which caused men to evolve an infinite variety of ships and rigs including galleys, clippers, schooners, sloops, cutters, yawls and ketches plus local variations from Boulogne drift-boats thru the Woosund junk. Wonderful pages on that ingenious stabilizer, the outrigger pays worthy tribute to the intrepid navigators of the Pacific. The katyak and umiak of the American aborigines stand with the Tlingit dugouts and the birch bark canoes of the Algonquins and the Iroquois. Rounding out the book is a complete history of the America's Cup Races from 1851 to 1937 with line sketches of sail and rig of each Cup defender. This is a great yachtsman's source book created by an eminently qualified author and illustrator.
