Sloops of the Hudson River: A Historical and Design Survey

by Paul E. Fontenoy

Book Overview

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. He also considers the revival...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0913372714
• ISBN13: 9780913372715
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Mystic Seaport Museum
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.1" x 8.0"