American Sailboat
Publisher: MBI
Published: March 17, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780760310021
Subjects: Sailing; Sports & Recreation; Sports; Transportation; USA; Sailing - General; Ships & Shipbuilding - Engineering; Ships & Shipbuilding - History; Sports & Recreation / Sailing
First sentence: The idea of going to sea on a sailboat for pleasure is old enough to have been ridiculed by the English writer Samuel Johnson, who in 1759 compared sailing to being in jail-with the chance of being drowned.