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Author: Maurice J. Laurier Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781475073331 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 566
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After twenty one years resigning from a management position at the Quincy Shipyard of General Dynamics the author supported by his wife Lee and children purchased the Greenway Marine Railway and country store. Foundered in 1920 Greenway for over forty years had been a thriving business and center of the local community but its then owners had let business deteriorate. Now as Glass Marine, Inc. the new owners began its revitalization. Two years later the first forty foot fiberglass work boat built on Chesapeake Bay was completed. Over the next fourteen years over eighty fiberglass work boats and pleasure fishing boats including a number of U. S. Coast Guard Certified Vessel were built. Through these years Glass Marine suffered through three disastrous fires, Northeater storms and a recession that nearly cause bankruptcy plus the untimely death of wife Lee from lung cancer. Interweaved in the book are numerous tales and event starting with the "Yankee come heres" dealing with the rural Gloucester County, Virginia, locals; working with the local Chesapeake Bay Watermen and their families plus many yacht owner custormers; interesting descriptions of some of the local characters; plus asorted other events and happenings.
Author: Maurice J. Laurier Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781475073331 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 566
Book Description
After twenty one years resigning from a management position at the Quincy Shipyard of General Dynamics the author supported by his wife Lee and children purchased the Greenway Marine Railway and country store. Foundered in 1920 Greenway for over forty years had been a thriving business and center of the local community but its then owners had let business deteriorate. Now as Glass Marine, Inc. the new owners began its revitalization. Two years later the first forty foot fiberglass work boat built on Chesapeake Bay was completed. Over the next fourteen years over eighty fiberglass work boats and pleasure fishing boats including a number of U. S. Coast Guard Certified Vessel were built. Through these years Glass Marine suffered through three disastrous fires, Northeater storms and a recession that nearly cause bankruptcy plus the untimely death of wife Lee from lung cancer. Interweaved in the book are numerous tales and event starting with the "Yankee come heres" dealing with the rural Gloucester County, Virginia, locals; working with the local Chesapeake Bay Watermen and their families plus many yacht owner custormers; interesting descriptions of some of the local characters; plus asorted other events and happenings.
Author: Daniel Spurr Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional ISBN: 0071798927 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 374
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The fascinating story of fiberglass boats and the mavericks who dreamed them. Nine out of ten sailors today own sturdy, often beautiful fiberglass craft. Fiberglass brought boating to the non-rich, but the history of that revolution has never been told. Daniel Spurr rectifies this omission with his highly readable and affectionate account of the fiberglass boat, from its earliest incarnation in World War II to the present day. In the early days, when shoestring genius was unfettered by industrial efficiency, therewere boats with tailfins, boats baked in ovens, and boats designed to be dropped from planes. The voyage from those first ugly ducklings to the graceful boats of the 1990s makes a riveting adventure of triumph and ruin. Along the way, Spurr profiles landmark designs that now set the standards in the used-boat market, and he portrays the revolution in human terms, introducing us to the vivid personalities who invented--often in their garages and rarely at a profit--the world of boating we know today.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9780329641788 Category : English language Languages : en Pages : 340
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"This new edition of Merriam-Webster's Rhyming Dictionary contains over 71,000 rhyming words, about 16,000 more than the first edition. The additions naturally include words that have come into common use since the earlier book's publication -- words such as busk, blog, out-there, dreadlocked, fearmonger, and jaw-dropper. But most of the book's additions are not actually new to the language. For the first time, most of the two-, three-, four-, and five-word entries found in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary have been given their own place in this volume's lists of rhyming words."--Preface.
Author: Richard J. King Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022651496X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 449
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Although Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing—or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the “best book ever written about nature,” and nearly the entirety of the story is set on the waves, with scarcely a whiff of land. In fact, Ishmael’s sea yarn is in conversation with the nature writing of Emerson and Thoreau, and Melville himself did much more than live for a year in a cabin beside a pond. He set sail: to the far remote Pacific Ocean, spending more than three years at sea before writing his masterpiece in 1851. A revelation for Moby-Dick devotees and neophytes alike, Ahab’s Rolling Sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of Melville’s novel. From white whales to whale intelligence, giant squids, barnacles, albatross, and sharks, Richard J. King examines what Melville knew from his own experiences and the sources available to a reader in the mid-1800s, exploring how and why Melville might have twisted what was known to serve his fiction. King then climbs to the crow’s nest, setting Melville in the context of the American perception of the ocean in 1851—at the very start of the Industrial Revolution and just before the publication of On the Origin of Species. King compares Ahab’s and Ishmael’s worldviews to how we see the ocean today: an expanse still immortal and sublime, but also in crisis. And although the concept of stewardship of the sea would have been entirely foreign, if not absurd, to Melville, King argues that Melville’s narrator Ishmael reveals his own tendencies toward what we would now call environmentalism. Featuring a coffer of illustrations and an array of interviews with contemporary scientists, fishers, and whale watch operators, Ahab’s Rolling Sea offers new insight not only into a cherished masterwork and its author but also into our evolving relationship with the briny deep—from whale hunters to climate refugees.
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