Avelinda: The Legacy of a Yankee Yachtsman

Island Institute Rockland Maine 1991. Second Printing. Tom Cabots tales of sailing the Maine coast as a young man as a father and as a curator of islands. AVELINDA is both the boat and the book that carries Cabots message of reverence for nature. In his own words and pictures (including many early Kodachromes ) he invites you on board his first vessel a soap box and on his initial voyage in 1919 to Maine the place he has spent the rest of his life exploring. Cabot also describes his adventures in AVELINDA-his beloved custom-built 50 ketch-battling hurricanes fog and overdevelopment ...