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The Thousand Dollar Yacht

The Thousand Dollar Yacht

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The essence of small boat sailing in tidal waters
Review: When a thousand dollars will buy just a few tens of pounds of most modern yachts, people who love to sail but whose wallets are of shoal depth are generally left on the beach. "The Thousand Dollar Yacht" is a message in a bottle for them, saying help is on the way. Especially if the reader is a young man or woman at the beginning of a career and with young children, a mortgage and all the rest of it making a formidable barrier to owning a boat. Bailey, a former New Yorker writer and avid small boat sailor, wrote this classic in the 1960's. Admittedly, the price of his yacht, if built today, would be a bit higher, but perhaps not in real dollars. Peter Tripp, a retired master mariner, marine draftsman and an artist with a perfect eye for a sweet sheerline, illustrated the book. It belongs on a sailer's shelf right alongside "Riddle of the Sands", and Joshua Slocum.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The essence of small boat sailing in tidal waters
Review: When a thousand dollars will buy just a few tens of pounds of most modern yachts, people who love to sail but whose wallets are of shoal depth are generally left on the beach. "The Thousand Dollar Yacht" is a message in a bottle for them, saying help is on the way. Especially if the reader is a young man or woman at the beginning of a career and with young children, a mortgage and all the rest of it making a formidable barrier to owning a boat.Bailey, a former New Yorker writer and avid small boat sailor, wrote this classic in the 1960's. Admittedly, the price of his yacht, if built today, would be a bit higher, but perhaps not in real dollars. Peter Tripp, a retired master mariner, marine draftsman and an artist with a perfect eye for a sweet sheerline, illustrated the book. It belongs on a sailer's shelf right alongside "Riddle of the Sands", and Joshua Slocum.


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