The Gloucester Fishing Schooners were perhaps the last working sailboats on the American East Coast to survive the advent of steam-powered engines. Superbly designed (even beyond the turn-of-the-century) they are…
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As a class, the American clipper ships were the largest and fastest sailing ships ever built. Although supplanted after only a few decades of evolution by steel-hulled steamships, these majestic…
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American pilot-schooner designer George Steers designed the yacht ‘America’ in 1851. The following year, ‘America’ soundly beat a fleet of English yachts in a challenge race, and brought home to…