Ticonderoga: Tales of an Enchanted Yacht (Concepts Books)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0393046133
ISBN 13
9780393046137
ISSN
30000919
Category
Seafaring Adventure; Shipwrecks
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Publication Year
1997
Publisher
Pages
256
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Description
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. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
