ALOFT: Pre-War Summer, 1939

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Peggy Bawn Press

The most recent episode in Alastair Gordon’s eloquent retracing of his father’s pre-second word war life in Scotland.

We enter a carefree summer of sailing beautiful home-grown yachts on the Firth of Clyde – the Gareloch in particular – and the west coast of Scotland; the last such summer for a long time, even forever. Read here.

 

Aloft - Alastair Gordon

~ Iain McAllister ~

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496pg biography of Scottish yacht designer, George Lennox Watson (1851-1904). Significant book on the history of yacht design & the development of modern yachting. Beautifully illustrated. Many photographs previously unpublished.
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