On Fri, 30 May 2008 10:06:43 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

"Roger Long" wrote in message
...
Thank you for that.

I've got the book somewhere. I'll have to get it out and read it again
this summer.

BTW his schooner, Wanderer, was documented by the WPA project along with a
lot of other historic vessels and a set of drawings is available from the
National Watercraft Collection. The sail plan was done from photographs
and the trained eye can see the forshortening caused by the lens and
perspective. Beautiful vessel, a former San Fransisco pilot schooner.

Hayden's novel "Voyage" is also a great read. It makes the point that the
huge sailing ships at the end of the age of sail were not so much the apex
of the sailing ship but the harbinger of the industrial revolution in
which people became the fuel for the giant machines of commerce. Sailing
them was a brutal business compared to the smaller ships of a half century
before.

Didn't he refit a schooner foremast to square rigged? Or was it
aviation writer Ernest K Gann who did that. A flagpole company lathe
turned the spars. I have a Hayden book and Gann's only boat book, but
not a good memory.

Casady