Avelinda: The Legacy of a Yankee Yachtsman

Avelinda: The Legacy of a Yankee Yachtsman by Cabot, Thomas D.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780884480938.

Island Institute, Rockland, Maine, 1991. Second Printing. Tom Cabot’s 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 ...