All This and Sailing, Too : An Autobiography,9780913372890

All This and Sailing, Too : An Autobiography

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ISBN13: 9780913372890
ISBN10: 0913372897
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-12-01
Publisher(s): Ingram Pub Services
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Summary

Olin Stephens is the most successful racing-yacht designer of the 20th century, a legend in his own time almost from the day in 1931 when he and his brother Rod and father Roderick, Sr. finished a transatlantic race to England in the revolutionary 52' yawl Dorade a full two days ahead of the competition. His autobiography begins with youthful family sailing, moves on to Six-Metre designs and victories, to J-Boat experience in the 1930s, to war work in the 1940s, to American Cup design and sailing from 1958 to 1983, and to a fleet of great cruising and racing yachts in between. This personal history of Olin and his brother, Rod, of the renowned design firm of Sparkman and Stephens, and of international yachting in this century, is informed, introspective, eloquent.

Table of Contents

Youth
8(20)
Getting Started
20(28)
Dorade
48(17)
Designing Boats
65(21)
Associations
86(14)
Ranger
100(22)
At Home
122(12)
War and Postwar
134(16)
America's Cup
150(22)
Some Clients
172(14)
Rod and the Team
186(12)
The Past and Present of Yacht Design
198(12)
Rating Rules for Yachts
210(18)
Retirement
228(18)
At Hanover
246(12)
New and Old
258(10)
Conclusion 268(4)
Index 272

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