Books Circumnavigating Low
Key, Where a Small Boat and a Smaller Budget Lead to Big Adventure is Captain Woody Henderson's account of his around the world adventure on his 33' Cal sloop, Low Key.
Starting out, with his
girlfriend, on a boat not designed for the rigors of the open ocean, the plan to do some sailing in the Pacific turns into a global adventure. From nearly losing Low Key in
Mexico to waterfalls in a Polynesian paradise; tribal Kava ceremonies in the Yasawas and love lost in Australia;
Seattle, Washington
(Postcard History Series) by Mark Sundquist chronicals: The Puget Sound region was inhabited by Native Americans for thousands of years before settlers arrived. After initially landing at Alki Beach in West Seattle, the Denny Party established a settlement on the eastern shores of Elliott Bay in 1852. For years, the cultural and commercial life centered around Yesler's Wharf and Sawmill. The city grew rapidly following the 1870s after the discovery of coal in the Cascade foothills. The
For more than half a century, Chris-
Craft reigned supreme in the world of motorboating. This market dominance was due in no small part to the design and cons t ruc t ion techniques employed in the company’s studios and on its factory floors. Building Chris-
Craf t : Inside the Factories by Anthony S. Mollica Jr. and Christopher J. Smith examines the company’s design and production heritage, looking at Chris- Craft’s considerable accomplishments
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brewing his own beer, soloing the Indian Ocean and getting buried under her waves; sailing the perilous East Cape of Africa, enduring South Atlantic calms, getting to know Caribbean crew and Cartegena locals; limping through the Panama Canal and banging up the coast of Baja; there's a little something for everyone.
Circumnavigating Low Key, Where
a Small Boat and a Smaller Budget Lead to Big Adventure by Captain Woody, published by Sheridan House,
www.sheridanhouse.com, $23.95
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Lowtide
entire commercial district was incinerated in the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, but it was quickly rebuilt out of enduring brick and stone. The city stumbled economically following the Panic of 1893, but it recovered after the Klondike Gold Rush began in 1897. By the 1909 Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle was the undisputed
leader in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle, Washington (Postcard
History Series) by Mark Sundquist, published by Arcadia Publishing SC,
www.arcadiapublishing.com, $21.99
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in the context of key competitors and industrial trends in general. Hi g h - q u a l i t y
a r chi v a l ima g e s take readers inside the factories, design studios, and lofts of Chris-Craft factories in Algonac, Holland; Cadillac, Michigan; Salisbury, Maryland; Chattanooga, Tennesse e; and C a r u t h e r s v i l l e ,
Missouri.
Factories, published by Voyageur Press,
www.voyageurpress.com, $40.00
Building Chris-Craft: Inside the .
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