August 2011 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 21. N e w N a u t i c a l B o o k s
FLY RAILS AND FLYING JIBS: Coasting Schooner Photographs by Robert H. I. Goddard
Interpretive captions by Douglas K. & Linda J. Lee
Mystic Seaport would like to make you aware if their newest publication, Fly Rails and Flying Jibs.
Between 1926 and 1947, Robert H. I. Goddard photographed many of the last coasting schooners on the East Coast, catching them underway, in port, laid up for better times, and abandoned. His views range from New Brunswick to Florida. Of particular note are images of large Crowell & Thurlow schooners laid up at Boothbay
Harbor, Maine, and of a variety of schooners unloading at Providence, Rhode Island. Mystic Seaport is pleased to publish this selection of 165 of those photographs, compiled from among the 500 existing images of Bob Goddard’s son, Thomas P. I. Goddard and granddaughter, Caroline Hazard Goddard. They worked with Moses Goddard to clean, copy, and enhance the surviving negatives, lantern slides, or prints to produce the highest-quality reproductions and capture the finest details of these images.
Despite the aesthetic composition of many of his photographs, Bob Goddard was not an artist. He made these images to record the details and work of the vessels, and he filed them away with everything he could find out about each schooner. To reflect his aims, schooner captains and historians Douglas K. and Linda J. Lee, builders and owners of the Maine Windjammer HERITAGE, have written interpretive captions to outline each schooner’s history and point out details. An appendix contains three of the articles Bob Goddard wrote about the ANNA R. HEIDRITTER, a schooner he photographed several times.
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Named for two of the distinctive features of these vanished vessels, Flying Rails and Flying Jibs offers rare and dramatic images of the last coasting schooners on the East Coast.
Published in hardcover, retails for $39.95 and will be available through normal trade book outlets and at our museum bookstore.
GPS FOR MARINERS: A Guide for the Recreational Boater
By Robert Sweet
From the National Education Officer of the U.S. Power Squadrons, a fully updated operator’s manual that should come with every boater’s GPS receiver or chart plotter. About the Book GPS for Mariners was immediately well received by nautical book buyers because it took the mystery out of what was, in 2003, still a somewhat mysterious black box. Sales of the book have been strong ever since—through the U.S. Power Squadrons and the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary as well as through bookstores and marine stores.
In the intervening six years, however, GPS has achieved almost universal acceptance. No one needs to be told in detail how the system works or why it is reliable anymore. Boaters today accept GPS as the ultimate navigation tool—they just want to know how to use it.
At the same time, even the most basic GPS receivers are much more full-featured now than six years ago. It’s hard to find a new GPS receiver—even a handheld unit—that doesn’t have resident charts or maps, for example. And many boaters now buy chart plotters with integral GPS—and the distinction between a GPS receiver and a full- featured chart plotter has become increasingly blurred. About the only thing
that hasn’t changed is that the manual that comes with a new GPS receiver or chart plotter is as confusing, fragmented, and incomplete as ever, and in all likelihood never even mentions nautical applications because GPS manufacturers cater to the larger nonboating markets.
In response to these trends, the second edition of GPS for Mariners will have much less GPS tech-talk and theory—no sense preaching to the converted—and more instead on getting the most out of today’s more advanced and powerful units. And the second edition will be presented in full color to do maximum justice to the many screen shots and electronic chart shots the book will feature, thus faithfully replicating the full-color screens of most of today’s GPS receivers and chart plotters.
GPS FOR MARINERS: A Guide for the Recreational Boater, by Robert Sweet. Paperback, $20.00, 172 pages.
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