Product & Book Reviews
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The Wreck of the Mentor
A story of death, despair and deliverance in the Age of Sail a richly illustrated adventure story telling the tale of a New Bedford whaleship.
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Three Histories of Local Boats
Tasmanian Piners’ Punts: Their History and Design, Legacy in wood, the Wahl family boat builders and tugboat SAND MAN.
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Women & the Wind
The film Women & the Wind traces the voyage of three women across the Atlantic in a James Wharram–designed catamaran.
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The Frost Caulking Wheel
Building replicas of the family caulking wheel if your planning to do any amount of caulking of carvel-planked hulls.
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The Rogers Collection of Dockyard Models
The Rogers Collection of Dockyard Models at the U.S. Naval Academy Museum, Volume III.
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The Melbourne Tool Company’s Low-Angle Block Plane
Melbourne Tool Company’s low-angle block plane is well cast, the depth-of-cut mechanism is precise, finished, and machined.
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Pettit Tuff Coat Nonskid Deck Coating
Pettit Tuff Coat Nonskid Deck Coating is water-based and requires a proprietary two-part primer.
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Bioaqualife Biodegradable Shrinkwrap
Shrinkwrap generates an enormous amount of non-recycled plastic waste each year. The Rhode Island-based company Bioaqualife aims to mitigate this problem with a high-performing product that breaks down in landfills.
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A Sea Bag of Books
ENDURANCE Shackleton, The Last Viking, Trekka Round the World, Across the Pacific, Once Is Enough, Atlantic.
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The Barefoot Navigator
Can we navigate as the Polynesians did is the foundational theme of Jack Lagan’s aspirationally book titled The Barefoot Navigator.
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Pacific Voyages
Pacific Voyages by Gordon Miller is a story of Sail in the Great Ocean.
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The Last Days of the Schooner AMERICA
The Last Days of the schooner AMERICA, a lost Icon at the Annapolis Warship Factory and the most successful and influential designs in the history of yachting.
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Dictionary of Woodworking Tools
Dictionary of Woodworking Tools describes every tool used in the woodworking trades and to explain its purpose.
76 Days Adrift
Wein’s treatment of Callahan’s story emphasizes mental fortitude over disaster; achievement over tragedy.