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An informal history of New England's coasting trades. From colonial times until well into this century, waterborne, wind-driven "trucks" carried cargo between coastal ports large and small. In 1919 John F. Leavitt, age fourteen, shipped aboard his first coaster, and for the next seven years he was a hand on a succession of Maine and Connecticut schooners. Many photographs, and the cover painting and pen & ink illustrations are by the author.
Table of Contents:
There Was a Time
The Way of Life
Be Ye Bound That?
Day on the Coast
Rockland and the Bay
Limers
Pump or Sink
Lumber Droghers
Boxboarders
The Alice S. Wentworth
Veterans of the Coast
Some Skippers
Weather
Ports of Call
Packets and Bay Coasters
Stone Droghers
Scows, Johnny-Wood Bo'ts, and Novies
Up to the West'ard
Some Three-Masters
208 pp., softcover
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