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Ticonderoga: Tales of an Enchanted Yacht (A concepts book) Book
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Launched as Tioga this ketch finished first in 24 of her initial 37 races. Renamed Ticonderoga she set more elapsed-time records that any other ocean racer in history.
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Launched as Tioga in 1936, this glorious ketch finished first in twenty-four of her initial thirty-seven races. Renamed Ticonderoga in 1946, she went on to set more elapsed-time records than any ocean racer in history. Ticonderoga held more than thirty course records in races on several oceans, surpassing even the best performances of the hard-driven nineteenth-century clipper ships. But Ticonderoga wasn't designed for racing. Her creator, L. Francis Herreshoff, shaped her for genteel "afternoon sailing," giving her uncommon elegance of form with a clipper bow, elliptical transom, raked rig, gilded garnish, and a bathtub. It is these qualities of unsurpassed opulence and beauty, combined with her astonishing speed, that have made Big Ti so incomparable.
- 0393046133
- 9780393046137
- JA Somer
- 10 December 1997
- W. W. Norton & Co.
- Hardcover (Book)
- 256
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