Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #423430 in Books
- Published on: 1996-10
- Original language:
English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 257 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Booklist
McNitt imposingly covers the history of not only yachting but, reaching back to the days when sail-training vessels were first-line warships, also sail training at Annapolis. Sail training lapsed between 1909 and the period just before World War II but has been steadily expanded since. The academy's midshipmen are now sailing widely and well in everything from dinghies to ocean racers. McNitt provides a chronology of events, both literary and graphic portraits of notable ships (the yacht America and "Old Ironsides" among them), sketches of major Annapolis yachtsmen, discussions of the political infighting behind various phases of the sailing revival, and some adventures and misadventures of sailing midshipmen. There is probably demand sufficient for only one book on this subject, and retired admiral and yachtsman McNitt meets it admirably for the purposes of both naval and yachting collections. Roland Green
