Windjammer Watching on the Coast of Maine: A Guide to the Famous Windjammer Fleet and Other Traditional Sailing Vessels

by Virginia L. Thorndike

More than 30 tall ships are described in this unusual guide. The text includes photographs, silhouettes (very handy for identification), and the history of each vessel, as well as details of design, rigging, and construction.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892723890
• ISBN13: 9780892723898
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Down East Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

An excellent guide to Maine's heritage on the water!

Thorndike loves the Maine waters and everything about it, it seems. Her book is concise, entertaining and full of the history of Maine's Windjammer fleet -- not only how they became Windjammers, but the lives these grand schooners led before those days. Informative, and a window to an era and a part of Maine's... and our collective... heritage.