Every issue of WindCheck includes a look at a new book about sailing (or perhaps the reissue of a maritime classic) and occasionally gives a listen to the music of the sea.
Described by Morris Yachts founderTom Morris as “my Babe Ruth of the boatbuilding business,” Edmund A. Cutts (1927-2009) was mentored in the art and science of yacht design by L. Francis Herreshoff, the fourth son of Nathanael G. Herreshoff. Ed Cutts never used a computer to design a boat, instead carving a wooden half-hull – as the legendary Captain Nat had done – and then scaling it up.
Joe Gross, a 51-year-old fisherman from Westerly, RI, was not wearing a lifejacket when he fell off his Eastern 22 Lobsterman on July 17, 2012.
September 25, 2013, the day that ORACLE Team USA defended the America’s Cup, was a momentous day in yachting history and the climax of the greatest come-from-behind victory in sports history.
Charter boat captain George Attwood, introduced in author Jerry Allen’s first novel, The Resort, is hired by wealthy businessman Arthur Fulton for a cruise along the New England coast.
She is the first woman to manage an America’s Cup campaign, and the first American, male or female, to sail in three America’s Cups and two Whitbread Round-the-World races.
The popularity of fiberglass boats that began in the middle of the last century brought wooden boats – and the art of building them – to the brink of extinction.
Sailing a Serious Ocean is a highly entertaining and engaging book, and it’s absolutely packed with lessons that might save a life one day.
The Billionaire and the Mechanic is compelling from the very first page, as author Julian Guthrie tells the story of Larry Ellison’s harrowing experience during the 1998 Sydney Hobart Yacht Race in which five boats sank and six sailors died.
A professional photographer since the 1980s, Heinrich Hecht has photographed the America’s Cup, the Admirals Cup, Olympic regattas and classic yachting events around the world. Sailing Fascination is a collection of more than 300 of his finest images.
In his first book, author Mark J. Gabrielson tells the story of how, in 1895, the defending New York Yacht Club sent emissaries to Deer Isle to recruit the best sailors in the country.
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