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A Berth to Bermuda: One Hundred Years of the World's Classic Ocean Race

John Rousmaniere

5/5 ( ratings)

When it was first sailed in 1906, the Bermuda Race made the sea a playground by creating a new sport-ocean racing by amateur sailors in normal boats. Sponsored by the Cruising Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, the race is now so glamorous that sailors' ears perk up when it is mentioned, so difficult that participants ask themselves "Why am I out here again?" and so addictive that they keep coming back for this every-other-year event. In this lavish, heavily illustrated book, yachting historian John Rousmaniere tells the story of the remarkable sailors, the great boats, the tactics, the Gulf Stream ordeal, and the lure of Bermuda that make this the world's classic ocean race.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Mystic Seaport Museum

Release: January 01, 1970

ISBN: 0939511177

ISBN 13: 9780939511174

A Berth to Bermuda: One Hundred Years of the World's Classic Ocean Race

John Rousmaniere

5/5 ( ratings)

When it was first sailed in 1906, the Bermuda Race made the sea a playground by creating a new sport-ocean racing by amateur sailors in normal boats. Sponsored by the Cruising Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, the race is now so glamorous that sailors' ears perk up when it is mentioned, so difficult that participants ask themselves "Why am I out here again?" and so addictive that they keep coming back for this every-other-year event. In this lavish, heavily illustrated book, yachting historian John Rousmaniere tells the story of the remarkable sailors, the great boats, the tactics, the Gulf Stream ordeal, and the lure of Bermuda that make this the world's classic ocean race.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Mystic Seaport Museum

Release: January 01, 1970

ISBN: 0939511177

ISBN 13: 9780939511174

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