Fly Rails and Flying Jibs: Coasting Schooner Photographs

Thomas P.I. Goddard; Andrew W. German [Editor]; none [Illustrator];

ISBN 10: 0939511347 / ISBN 13: 9780939511341

Published by Mystic Seaport Museum, 2011

About this Item

Seller Inventory # NM1906

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fly Rails and Flying Jibs: Coasting Schooner Photographs
• Publisher: Mystic Seaport Museum
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0939511347
• ISBN 13: 9780939511341
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: None
• Condition: As New

About this title

Synopsis

Robert H.I. Goddard photographed many of the last coasting schooners on the East Coast. His views range from New Brunswick to Florida. Images of large Crowell & Thurlow Schooners laid up at Boothbay Harbor, Maine and a variety of schooners at Providence, R.I. There is a selection of 165 photographs compiled from among 500 existing images by his son.

About the Author

Tom, like his father before him learned to sail during family cruises Down East. Tom graduated from Marlboro College in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts in American studies. Tom and his daughter Caroline worked to clean copy and enhance surviving negatives, slides and prints to produce the highest quality details of these images.