Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes (Parts I and II, Complete)
Newport News: The Mariner's Museum, 1937. First printing. Black and white plates, scale drawings. Hardcover. Octavo. 113 pages (Part I) and
Wraps. Oblong folio. Unpaginated plates (Part II). Very good. Text volume has a few extremity rubs, shallow bumps, and some minor splitting along inner margin of rear endpapers. Plates volume has minor rubs at spine ends and a vertical crease through the middle of the volume from being folded.
Brewington's first book. An excellent study of the region's early log canoes, canoe building methods, sailing rigs, and log canoe racing. The log canoe is a native Chesapeake Bay sailing craft and was the primary fishing boat on the Bay before the development of the bugeye and skipjack.
Part I contains the descriptive text and 40 illustrations. Part II contains scale drawings and information on eleven Chesapeake log canoes, six of which were built in Talbot County. This latter volume of plans is quite uncommon to find.
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