Matthew Goldman

Moonwind at Large

Sailing Hither and Yon

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Further adventures of Constant Waterman, whose wry, joyful voice makes his insane love of boats quite contagious.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Breakaway Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781891369957
• ISBN-10: 1891369954
• Artikelnr.: 34395286

Autorenporträt

MATTHEW GOLDMAN has worked as a toolmaker, a woodworker, and a land surveyor. He has written serious drama, black comedy, and farce. He has published a number of poems. He writes a column for Messing About in Boats. His work also appears in Good Old Boat, Points East, and WindCheck. He resides in Stonington, Connecticut, and works repairing boats in nearby Noank where he keeps his sloop, MoonWind.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Frontpiece: HARBOR
Introduction
Chris Craft Pawnee
Purchasing MoonWind
Arguments against Ocean Cruising
The Connecticut River
Hamburg Cove
River Burial
Dock and Dine
Chester
The Thames River
A Matter of Perspective
The Gooseneck Clevis
Thames Mouth
Pine Island Sound
Independence Day
Cloudy with a Chance of Muskrats
Drive-in Movies - SYC
Taking the Plunge
Three Mile Harbor
Thanksgiving Day 2009
First Spring Sail
Yarns and Reflections
Snagged!
The Journals of Constant Waterman
A Reluctant Spring
Courvoisier
Mariposa
Electrolysis
Compass Roses
The Art of not Quite Going Aground
30 December 2009
West Cove
Verisimilitude
Christmas Eve Day
The Whitehall
Outboard Blues
Spring Cleaning
Putting Her on Her Mooring
Paula's Birthday
Arrghhh!
Without the Cry of the Gull
Maybe Colder
12 January
Late Winter's Sail
Mystic Harbor
Wooden Boat Parade
Hello, Hello, Hello!
Mystic Seaport
Fishers Island Sound
...as a Kitten...
Boating - or Growing Older
January Sail
Warm Enough to Sail
A Flake of Green Paint
Out and Back
Rounding Fishers Island
Memorial Day 2007
An Uneventful Sail
The Race
Masons Island
A Seagull in the Varnish
Thanksgiving 2007
Annoying the Seals
Little Narragansett Bay
Point Judith Pond
Blowing on the Sails
The Sea, the Breeze, the Sky
Mermaids
Narragansett Bay
Point Judith Pond
Greenwich Bay
Potowomut Neck
Potter Cove
Dutch Harbor
A Caribbean 35
Point Judith
Block Island
A Business Trip
Overnight Frost
The Bakery
Martha's Vineyard
Rain
Fitting Out
Harbor of Refuge
Point Judith Pond
To Cuttyhunk
Sunset from the Summit
Exploring Cuttyhunk
Hadley Harbor
Wicked Woods Hole
Lake Tashmoo
Aground
Menemsha
Cuttyhunk Revisited
Gosnold's Tower
An Island Docent
Cuttyhunk Public Library
Two Artists
Motor Sail back to Point Judith Pond
"Queen o' Scots"
Lethargy
Block Island
Homeward Bound
Epilogue
There Was a Time