The thousand dollar yacht

by Anthony Bailey

Book Overview

First published in 1968, The Thousand Dollar Yacht has won countless admirere and the status of a boating classic. The story of the Billy Ruffian is told from lofting to launching, and later her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006BTZNG
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Another Bailey classic

Once again Anthony Bailey mixes local knowledge with his personal experiences, the result is a book I couldn't put down. Starting with his building of a sailing vessel on the cheap to his local sailing destinations, this is a good read.

The essence of small boat sailing in tidal waters

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.