Last of the Cape Horners : Firsthand Accounts from the Final Days of the Commercial Tall Ships
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Book
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ISBN 10
157488283X
ISBN 13
9781574882834
Category
History of Boating/Sailing; Dictionaries and other Information
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Publication Year
2000
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Pages
296
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When we think of commercial sailing, most of us are apt to picture square-riggers as vessels of the nineteenth century or earlier. Yet the graceful, multi-masted beauties of our imaginations actually sailed on into the 1950s before they disappeared from the seas forever. 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. - from Amzon
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