Wood and Glory: Muskoka's Classic Launches
By Unknown Author.
Description
A pictorial tribute to hand-built recreational boats. Not so very long ago, the best pleasure boats were built, not manufactured. They were hand-built to order, of the finest materials: oak, cedar and elm from the Boreal Forest; fir from the Pacific Coast; mahogany from the Honduras; the Philippines and the east coast of Africa. Many of these one-of-a-kind boats were built in the Muskoka Lakes district. Wood and Glory takes readers back to that special era of boating that flowered before World War II. These classic center-drive displacement launches (many still in use today) consti...
ISBN(s)
155046177X, 9781550461770
