Product Review

Classic Sail features sailing craft ranging from traditional working vessels and cruising sailboats, to exciting America s Cup contenders of the past. Kathy Mansfield, whose work is found in nautical magazines, including WoodenBoat, Classic Boat, and Water Craft, brings together American and European boats in this very enjoyable pan-Atlantic collection.

Sail boats featured include:

Yawl Lutine of Helford was designed by Laurent Giles and built by Camper & Nicholson

The 115 gaff cutter Moonbeam IV designed and built of teak on steel frames by William Fife

The Concordia 41 Eagle built in 1962 by Abeking & Rassmussen

Naema, a 128 sailing schooner, built in 2013 by the Dutch Graafship in Turkey

46 Sparkman & Stephens ketch, Mermaid

1902 Herreshoff Buzzard s Bay 30, Mashnee

Gaff cutter, le Frétois, in Brittany, France

Olympian a rare Universal Rule, P-class yacht designed by William Gardner in 1913

Tuiga, one of the four beautiful William Fife Fifteen Metre-class yachts

Sparkman and Stephens ketch Mermaid

1907 gaff yawl, Veronique, was designed and built at Luke & Co.

126 Puritan is the most famous of the schooners designed by John Alden