Doubleday, 1999, Hardcover, Book Condition: New Book, Dust Jacket Condition: New, First
"Whynott spent a year (June 1996 to July 1997) at White's boat yard in Brooklin, Maine. At the time, White was battling cancer, nearing the end of his life, and designing what would be his last boat, the W-76, a wooden racing yacht with "sublime lines and exquisite rigging." A Unit of Water, the result of that experience, traces White's life from his birth in 1930 to his childhood spent in New York and Maine, his naval architecture studies at MIT, and his eventual move to Brooklin, where he began working at the small boat yard that eventually became his own." KA4 Size: Octavo (standard book size). 303 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Ships & the Sea. ISBN: 0385488122. ISBN/EAN: 9780385488129. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 5080.
"Whynott spent a year (June 1996 to July 1997) at White's boat yard in Brooklin, Maine. At the time, White was battling cancer, nearing the end of his life, and designing what would be his last boat, the W-76, a wooden racing yacht with "sublime lines and exquisite rigging." A Unit of Water, the result of that experience, traces White's life from his birth in 1930 to his childhood spent in New York and Maine, his naval architecture studies at MIT, and his eventual move to Brooklin, where he began working at the small boat yard that eventually became his own." KA4 Size: Octavo (standard book size). 303 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Ships & the Sea. ISBN: 0385488122. ISBN/EAN: 9780385488129. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 5080.