Sailboats (The 500)
Publisher: Crestline
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780760314999
Subjects: Sports & Recreation; Transportation; Sports; Sailing - General; Ships & Shipbuilding - General; Sports & Recreation / Sailing
First sentence: Today's giant catamarans compete against each other to sail around the world in less than 80 days, yet yacht racing is only a relatively recent phenomenon For thousands of years, sailing was an activity used for either war or commerce.