American Sailing Craft

xiii, 239 pp. Black-and-white diagrams. Describes the smaller craft that were used alongshore and coastwise, with occasional voyages to the Maritime Provinces of Nova Scotia and to the West Indies. The chapters dealing with the American pilot boat as developed from Norfolk, Virginia, to Boston are of intense interest to yachtsmen, for it was from one of these boats that the yacht America was born, whose existence and achievements had a profound effect on the development of yachting in the United States. Howard Irving Chapelle (February 1, 1901 – June 30, 1975) was an American naval architect, and curator of maritime history at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. In addition, he authored many books and articles on maritime history and marine architecture.