Click on image for larger view Softcover; 60 pages, 54 photographs, seven foldout sheets of plans. Author Barry Thomas is the principal boatbuilder at the Mystic Seaport Museum Boatshop. "After conferring with Horace Manley Crosby, Jr., and learning the secrets of the Crosby construction methods, they were able to build a nearly exact replica of the classic Crosby catboats, which were produced in Osterville, Cape Cod, MA between 1880 and 1935." Not just a boatbuilding manual, but also a documentary record of previously unwritten knowledge of a classic American boat type.
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