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Schildt, Goran.
In the Wake of a Wish.
Translated from the Swedish by Alan Blair. New York: De Graff, 1957. 1st U.S.
edition. 288 pages. Photographs. Plans.
European sail cruise in 1948. Very good hardcover. #12887.
$17.50
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Schildt, Goran.
The Sun Boat: A Voyage of Discovery.
Translated from the Swedish by Alan Blair. London: Staples, 1957. 1st edition.
314 pages. Photographs.
The first trip of a small sailboat, the Daphne, up the Nile from Alexandria to
the Great Cataracts near Wadi Halfa in the Sudan, returning to the
Mediterranean by Ismailia and the Suez Canal. Very good hardcover in slightly
frayed, chipped and worn dust jacket. #11423. $17.50
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Schlee, Susan.
On Almost Any Wind: The Saga of the Oceanographic Research
Vessel Atlantis.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978. 301 pages. Index. Bibliographical sources.
Illustrations. Photographs. Endpaper maps.
A study of role of the steel ketch that served as the first deep-water research
vessel for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, 1931-1966. Very good hardcover in worn and
frayed dust jacket. ISBN 0801411602. #11425. $15
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Seyfarth, Fritz.
Tales of the Caribbean: A Feast of Islands.
Photographs by Harold Hawley. Illustrations by Dee Carstarphen. Chart sketches
by the author. Clinton Corners, N.Y.: John de Graff, 1978. 1st printing.
Small 4to (medium-large book). 167 pages. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Signed by the
author on title page.
An invitation to explore the Caribbean based on the author's seven years of
vagabonding in his 40-foot ketch Tumbleweed. Very good hardcover in slightly
worn and frayed dust jacket. ISBN 0828600813. #21420. $17.50
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Simper, Robert.
Gaff Sail.
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1980. 1st printing. 144 pages. Index.
Photographs. Plans.
Very good cloth-covered boards in Very good dust jacket. ISBN 0870218271.
#19085. $20
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Snow, Edward Rowe.
Cruising the Massachusetts Coast.
Boston, Massachusetts: Yankee Publishing Company, 1945. 64 pages. Photographs.
Inscribed, dated and signed by the author.
Very good stiff pictorial boards with plastic spiral binding. Edges of covers
slightly sunned. #23130. $50
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Society of Naval Architect and Marine
Engineers.
The Eighth Chesapeake Sailing Yacht Symposium, March 7, 1987.
New York: Society of Naval Architect and Marine Engineers, 1987. 4to (large
book). 154 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. The Symposium was held in Mahan
Hall, United States Naval Academy, and was sponsored by the Chesapeake Section
of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, the Chesapeake Bay
Yacht Racing Association, and the U.S. Naval Academy Sailing Squadron.
Includes papers presented on Friday, March 6, 1987, at an open meeting of SNAME
Technical & Research Panel, 'Sailing Yachts & Ships.' Very good stiff wrappers
(soft cover). #27562. $25
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Somerville, Hugh.
Sceptre, the Seventeenth Challenger.
New York: Funk, 1959. 1st U.S. publication. 185, xvii pages. Photographs. Diagrams.
Very good hardcover in good dust jacket, missing triangular chip from right-hand side of front jacket. #11531. $30
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Stamford Yacht Club.
The Stamford Yacht Club. 50th Anniversary, 1890-1940.
Shippan Point, Stamford, Connecticut: The Stamford Yacht Club, 1940. 24 pages.
Photographs. Separate Membership Roster, April 1940, laid in.
Very good hardcover. #27548. $70
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Stock, Ralph.
The Chequered Cruise.
New York: Dodd, Mean, 1916. 190 pages. Photographs. Frontispiece. Toy, Adventures
Afloat, 687.
With the Wanderlust, an auxiliary gaff-rigged yawl, the author and his
companions left Australia and sailed in the South Seas. Eventually the yacht
was lost on a reef. - Cf. Toy, Adventures Afloat, 687. Good hardcover, edges
slightly worn, spine title nearly faded, covers a bit soiled, internally sound.
#22865. $50
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Stone, Herbert L., and William H.
Taylor.
The America's Cup Races.
New York: Macmillan, 1930. New revised edition. 356, [2] pages. Photographs.
Illustrations. Plans.
The story of the century-old struggle to win the greatest international trophy.
Very good hardcover binding with front-cover label showing the America's Cup.
#11594. $27.50
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Stone, Herbert L., and William H.
Taylor.
The America's Cup Races.
Princeton, New Jersey: Van Nostrand, 1958. 254 pages. Index. Photographs.
Illustrations. Plans. A Van Nostrand Sporting Book. Supplement laid in: The
final chapter covering the 1958 defense of the Cup, which was completed after
the book was published.
The story of the century old struggle to win the greatest international trophy.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. #15632. $7.50
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Stone, Roger D.
The Voyage of the Sanderling.
New York: Knopf, 1990. 1st edition. 302 pages. Illustrations. Maps.
Photographs.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 039457334X. #16180.
$7.50
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Stuermer, Gordon and Nina.
Starbound.
New York: David McKay, 1977. 1st printing. viii, 339 pages. Maps. Photographs.
Account of the Stuermers' voyage in the square-sail ketch 'Starbound,'
circumnavigating the globe in two-and-a-half years. Very good hardcover in
slightly worn and rubbed dust jacket. ISBN 0679507787. #17016. $12.50
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Swann, Bruce.
Defence '87 Down Under.
Netley, South Australia: Samaria Pty. Ltd., 1986. 1st printing. No pagination.
Color and black-and-white sketches of the 1987 America's Cup Races held in
Perth.
Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket. ISBN 095881600X. #16911.
$15
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