Description: Classic Sail features smaller sailing craft of many kinds, from traditional working vessels and cruising sailboats, to exciting America's Cup contenders of the past. Photographed by Kathy Mansfield, whose work is found in nautical magazines including Wooden Boat, Cruising World, and Water Craft, Classic Sail brings together American and European boats in this very enjoyable pan-Atlantic collection. Notes: Boats highlighted in the 2004 edition of the calendar include: JAN Nan of Fife FEB Gleam MAR Collingwood APR Moonbeam MAY Sovereign, Vanity JUN Mairead JUL Partridge AUG Lady Anne SEP Vixen OCT Sovereign, Vanity NOV Mariette DEC Caprice Kathy Mansfield comes from Massachusetts and for the last twenty years has lived with her English husband in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, near the River Thames. After a career on the sales and marketing side of academic publishing, she returned to her interest in traditional and classic boats, writing and photographing for numerous magazines such as Wooden Boat and Cruising World in the U.S., and Water Craft magazine and numerous others in the U.K. and France. Her photographs have also been used as book and magazine covers, in exhibitions and posters.
