For more than 200 years, sloop-rigged sailing craft carried the bulk of the commerce on the Hudson River, helping to make New York America's premier seaport. Historian and model-maker Fontenoy looks at the origins of Hudson River sloops among seventeenth-century Dutch vessels, then traces the changes through the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that resulted in the classic Hudson River sloop of the 1830s-50s.
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For more than 200 years, sloop-rigged sailing craft carried the bulk of the commerce on the Hudson River, helping to make New York America's premier seaport. Historian and model-maker Fontenoy looks at the origins of Hudson River sloops among seventeenth-century Dutch vessels, then traces the changes through the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that resulted in the classic Hudson River sloop of the 1830s-50s.
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Fine. 0913372714. Oblong paperback, excellent condition, mild rubbing to the glossy surface on the front cover is the only flaw to this clean, attractive copy, "the definitive work on these well-known watercraft-contains 59 illustrations, 16 fold-out plans, appendixes, a glossary of sloop terms, and a comprehensive bibliography of sloop sources, " nice gift copy; 132 pages.
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