A Unit of Water, a Unit of Time by Douglas Whynott

A Unit of Water, a Unit of Time by Douglas Whynott

In a time when racing boats are mass-produced from synthetic materials, a dying breed of craftsman continues to build wooden sailboats of astonishing beauty. Boatbuilding is an ancient art, and Joel White was a master. Son of the legendary writer E.B. White, he was raised around boats and his designs were as sublime and graceful as his father's prose. At a boatyard in Maine, White and his closely knit team of builders brought scores of his creations from blueprints into the ocean.
In June 1996, six months after being diagnosed with cancer, Joel White began designing the W-76, an exquisite racing yacht. It was his final masterpiece. Douglas Whynott spent a year at Brooklin Boat Yard, observing as this design took shape, first in sketches and then during the painstaking building of the wooden craft.
The result is the poignant tale of both a genius at work and the people devoted to his art. Evoking E.B. White's New England and its salty residents, A Unit of Water, a Unit of Time is a classic portrait of dignity, charm, and humble magnificence-and of a maritime community that keeps a vanishing world alive.

Following the Bloom and Giant Bluefin are both written by Douglas Whynott. He's worked as a piano tuner, an apiary inspector, a blues pianist, and a dolphin trainer, among other things. Outside, the Boston Globe, Reader's Digest, and a variety of other periodicals have published his work. He is a resident of New Hampshir.

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ISBN 13	9780671785260
ISBN 10	0671785265
Title	A Unit of Water, a Unit of Time
Author	Douglas Whynott
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2000-05-01
Number of pages	320
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