{"title":"Keith Mclaren","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"race-for-real-sailors-book-keith-mclaren-9781771622677","title":"A Race for Real Sailors","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1920, the public following the latest America's Cup series were frustrated to find that every time the wind got up, the organizers called off the race. There was muttering in the taverns of Halifax and Lunenburg: why not show these fancy yachtsmen what real sailors can do? A Nova Scotia newspaper donated a trophy and put out a challenge to their rivals in New England, inviting them to meet the Maritimes' best in a \"race for real sailors.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Race for Real Sailors\u003c\/i\u003e is a vibrant history of the Fishermen's Cup series, which dominated sporting headlines between the two world wars. The salt spray practically blows off the page as the author's arresting style captures the drama of each race and the personalities of the ships that contested them: the \u003ci\u003eDelawana\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eEsperanto\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eColumbia\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eGertrude L. Thebaud\u003c\/i\u003e, and dominating them all the \u003ci\u003eBluenose\u003c\/i\u003e, the big brute from Lunenburg whose image shines on the Canadian dime to this day. Vying for the spotlight are the boats' larger-than-life skippers, among them Marty Welch, the hard-charging American who first took the cup; Ben Pine, the Gloucester scrap dealer whose passion kept the races afloat when they seemed destined to fade away; and the irascible, impossible Angus Walters, master of the \u003ci\u003eBluenose\u003c\/i\u003e, who repeatedly broke American hearts but whose own heart was broken by Canada's refusal to come to the rescue of his beloved vessel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis stirring and poignant tale is illustrated with 51 historical photographs and five maps, and rounded out by a glossary of sailing terms and an appendix of the ever-changing race rules. 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The \u003ci\u003eElsie\u003c\/i\u003e's skipper had beaten a Canadian boat decisively the previous year to win the first International Fishermen's Cup race. The new challenger was the \u003ci\u003eBluenose\u003c\/i\u003e, set to begin a series of heated and often acrimonious races over the following two decades that left her bruised but unbowed, turning her into an icon whose image still shines on the Canadian dime more than eighty years later.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExhaustively researched from archives in both the US and Canada, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Race for Real Sailors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e brings the ships and the men who sailed them to life with an even-handedness never before attempted. The salt spray practically blows off the page as \u003cb\u003eKeith McLaren\u003c\/b\u003e's arresting style captures the excitement, incidents, and human drama of each race and the almost living personalities of the schooners that contested them. The stirring and poignant tale is illustrated with 51 contemporary photographs and 5 maps rounded out by a glossary of sailing terms and an appendix of the ever-changing race rules. This is a story that will keep even confirmed land lubbers pegged to their seats, a tale of iron men and wooden ships whose time will never come again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50701905395985,"sku":"CIN1553651618G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50996115439889,"sku":"CIN1553651618VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1553651618.jpg?v=1751309259"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-keith-mclaren.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}