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Sloops of the Hudson River: A Historical and Design Survey - Softcover

Fontenoy, Paul E

 
9780913372715: Sloops of the Hudson River: A Historical and Design Survey

Synopsis

For more than 200 years, sloop-rigged sailing craft carried the bulk of the commerce on the Hudson River, helping to make New York America's premier seaport. Historian and model-maker Fontenoy looks at the origins of Hudson River sloops among seventeenth-century Dutch vessels, then traces the changes through the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that resulted in the classic Hudson River sloop of the 1830s-50s.

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