First published in 1968, The Thousand Dollar Yacht has won countless admirere and the status of a boating classic. The story of the Billy Ruffian is told from lofting to launching, and later her cruises on Long Island, Fisher's Island, and Block Island sounds-a story that distills the wind, fog, sun, salt, and sand, conveying the sensations of sailing to a set destination or meandering gloriously through coastal waters.
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...elegantly written and should warm the heart of anyone with more than a drop or two of seawater in their veins. -- The Sunday Telegraph, November 1996
Bailey has a perceptive nature. His story telling possesses a quiet charm, soothing yet stimulating and often amusing. -- The Ensign, June 1998
One of the best-told tales of small-boat mania I have ever read. --WoodenBoat, March/April 1997
Bailey has a perceptive nature. His story telling possesses a quiet charm, soothing yet stimulating and often amusing. -- The Ensign, June 1998
One of the best-told tales of small-boat mania I have ever read. --WoodenBoat, March/April 1997
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"Delightful" --Eric Hiscock
"Most enjoyable" --J.D. Sleightholme
"If you find anything written by Bailey on boats, read that too. Especially The Thousand Dollar Yacht." --WoodenBoat
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The essence of small boat sailing in tidal waters,
This review is from: The Thousand Dollar Yacht (Paperback)
When a thousand dollars will buy just a few tens of pounds of most modern yachts, people who love to sail but whose wallets are of shoal depth are generally left on the beach. "The Thousand Dollar Yacht" is a message in a bottle for them, saying help is on the way. Especially if the reader is a young man or woman at the beginning of a career and with young children, a mortgage and all the rest of it making a formidable barrier to owning a boat.
Bailey, a former New Yorker writer and avid small boat sailor, wrote this classic in the 1960's. Admittedly, the price of his yacht, if built today, would be a bit higher, but perhaps not in real dollars.
Peter Tripp, a retired master mariner, marine draftsman and an artist with a perfect eye for a sweet sheerline, illustrated the book. It belongs on a sailer's shelf right alongside "Riddle of the Sands", and Joshua Slocum.
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Another Bailey classic,
This review is from: The Thousand Dollar Yacht (Paperback)
Once again Anthony Bailey mixes local knowledge with his personal experiences, the result is a book I couldn't put down. Starting with his building of a sailing vessel on the cheap to his local sailing destinations, this is a good read.
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