Ticonderoga : tales of an enchanted yacht / Jack A. Somer.
By: Somer, Jack A [author.]
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BookSeries: Mystic Seaport Museum book: Publisher: Mystic, Ct : Mystic Seaport Museum, 1997Copyright date: ©1997Description: vii, 256 pages : photographs (some color) ; 32 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0393046133 (hardback); 9780393046137 (hardback).Subject(s): Ticonderoga (Ketch) | Yachts -- United StatesDDC classification: 797.14
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending | 797.14 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00180611 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Launched as Tioga in 1936, this glorious ketch finished first in twenty-four of her initial thirty-seven races. Renamed Ticonderoga in 1946, she went on to set more elapsed-time records than any ocean racer in history. Ticonderoga held more than thirty course records in races on several oceans, surpassing even the best performances of the hard-driven nineteenth-century clipper ships. But Ticonderoga wasn't designed for racing. Her creator, L. Francis Herreshoff, shaped her for genteel "afternoon sailing," giving her uncommon elegance of form with a clipper bow, elliptical transom, raked rig, gilded garnish, and a bathtub. It is these qualities of unsurpassed opulence and beauty, combined with her astonishing speed, that have made Big Ti so incomparable.