Lovely on the Lake
At a busy boat shop anchored deep in the Adirondacks, craftsmen work steadily at keeping historic lake boats alive and thriving.
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At a busy boat shop anchored deep in the Adirondacks, craftsmen work steadily at keeping historic lake boats alive and thriving.
In Maine, an 83-year-old fleet of International One-Designs keeps going, and growing.
by Stan Grayson COURTESY THE NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM Joshua Slocum’s SPRAY sails near Sydney, Australia, where Slocum was given much-needed new sails during his pioneering solo circumnavigation. Throughout his sailing career, Slocum experienced many fortuitous events and near misses, and came to acknowledge his good fortune as “Slocum’s luck.” COURTESY THE NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM Slocum circa 1883, when he was 39. Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, probably sometime in 1866, a ship named AGRA faces a rising wind. Launched in 1862 at the redoubtable Medford, Massachusetts, yard of ...