Yachting's Golden Age

Yachting's Golden Age -- This stunning collection of 102 yachting photographs transports us back to the most glorious time in America's maritime past. The pictures -- glass plate images documenting sail and steam from the earliest days of photography in the 1880s up to 1905 -- portray pleasure boats at their most magnificent during the height of the Gilded Age, when the largest and fastest cutters and sloops battled for possession of the world's most coveted sporting trophy; and when every yacht was a one-of-a-kind hand-crafted creation with its own personality.

Here are:

Edward Burgess's racing yacht The Puritan with its breakthrough design (it won the America's Cup) ... the schooner Casco that sailed into fame when Robert Louis Stevenson and family chartered her for a six-month cruise of the South Seas ... the 119-foot Dungeness owned by Lucy Carnegie, sister of Andrew; it was steam-propelled and the first of its type to be allowed into the New York Yacht Club (the boat caused more of a furor than its owner who was one of only 12 women out of 1500 members).

Here as well are photographs of:

Catboats -- imminently seaworthy and delightfully uncomplicated ... the Atalanta, a 233-foot steam yacht, owned by Jay Gould and manned by a crew of 55 (when Gould was blackballed because of his notorious financial dealings, he founded the American Yacht Club) ... the Valiant, Vanderbilt's 291-foot, 2400-ton steamer with a crew of sixty and twenty staterooms for the family and friends ... The Niagara -- its Renaissance Revival drawing room was 36 feet wide. It had a library, photographic darkroom, and recreation hall with an electronically operated orchestra..

Sailing stories, racing stories, shipbuilding stories stories of courage and peril -- brilliantly retold in the entertaining and informative text by Ed Holm.

Yachting's Golden Age

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