Masconomo (English Edition)

A light-hearted but reverent look at the world of boating on a wooden sailboat hailing from Manchester on the Massachusetts North Shore. Racing, cruising, crew training, fog navigation and heavy weather anecdotes enliven and illustrate. Gives a sense of the boater's life in the old-time Yankee boatyard where Masconomo was built as the author—her new owner-- learns ocean sailing and lessons about life from the boat builder, the boat designer's son. Describes trips thru the Cape Cod Canal, fog and bad weather sailing, sails and sailboat rigging and a bit about boat machinery.