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Muskrat: A Surprise Bid for the America's Cup

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This is a wonderful story of Maryland's Eastern Shore humor. The setting starts in the town of Oxford, MD where a few of the locals put their heads together and come up with their own specially-designed boat with local flare to enter the world-famous America's Cup Race in Perth. The result is a hilarious. All sailing advocates should read this wonderful story! And, for anyone from the eastern shore, some of the characters just might sound a little familiar...

awesome book. best book ever. good sailing lingo. would recomend this book to any sailor/boater. easy to read im 14 and read this book very fast moving. can't put it down.

Douglas Hanks wrote this magnificent yarn about the townsfolk of a small Eastern Shore community (Oxford, MD) mounting a bid for the America's Cup. The designer of the vessel is a local boatbuilder that develops a radical concept. The town pulls together to help him build and campaign the boat. It is beautifully written and you'll be cheering the team on if you read it.

The best part is that anyone who spent any length of time in Oxford would have recognized the characters in the book as the real residents of the town, loosely cloaked in a novel's licensed perspectives. So it truly provides a great insight into life on the Eastern shore.

The worst part is that Pope's Tavern had a wonderful mural on the wall commemorating the team's effort and on display was a replica of the cup for all to see. Sadly, the last time we visited Oxford, Pope's was now a B&B, the Tavern was closed, and the building was up for sale. Oxford will never be the same if Pope's isn't restored.