<p>As a first-ever written history of its kind, this book looks back at the historical role four Twin Cities lakes, its boat designers and builders, and yacht clubs and local champion sailors played in helping establish the sport of yacht racing in America, and helped advance the sport to where it is today in Minneapolis/St. Paul, the Midwest and United States. A book written on Minnesota's history of fast racing yacht development in the late 1800s and early 1900s and up to today. It captures the heritage of the innovative dinghy and scow-type boat builders and Minnesota yacht clubs who initiated the birth of the sport of yacht racing locally and nationally. Filled with fascinating details, with boat skipper profiles and sailing fast secrets, the history includes photography of both vintage and today's state-of-the-art inland lake racing yachts. It explores the history-making sailors, the early sailing scene and its impact on Minnesota and Twin Cities sports and social history, the rich traditions of these lakes' yacht clubs, women in yachting, local sailboat designers/builders, the yachts and regattas, champion adult, collegiate and youth sailors, ice boating, windsurfing, race course formats and race officiating. The history chronologically traces the development of the scow racing design, the scow builders' beginnings and their multi-class racing designs that led to its popular style today, the leading class of racing sailboats on inland lakes. Further, it includes a special section on the life's lessons learned from competitive sailing and full of fun illustrative anecdotes on the sport.</p>

The History of Yacht Racing in Minnesota: How Its Sailors and Boat Builders Transformed Competitive Sailing in America; 1870-2022

History

Browne, Tim

Americas

Itasca Books

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Poe Meets Shaw: The Shaw Alphabet Edition of Edgar Allan Poe

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Shaw Alphabet Books

As you're undoubtedly aware, English is a highly non-phonetic language. So determined was he to change this, George Bernard Shaw would not give up even in death. Instead he proposed a contest in his will to make a 100% phonetic English alphabet. The contest was held, the alphabet was created and his play Androcles and the Lion was converted to the new alphabet. Instead of spreading far and wide, it sadly died a quiet death. . . until now. In this work you'll find many examples of Poe's genius. Most know him only as the father of modern horror, not knowing that he also wrote love poetry, science fiction, science fact, plays, book reviews and a documentary on how he wrote The Raven. Now, for the first time ever, you can enjoy Edgar Allan Poe as you've never seen him before. . . in 100% phonetic English. Note: This special condensed edition is primarily intended for people who are already experienced with the Shaw Alphabet and are fully aware of its advantages over our current spelling system.

Poe Meets Shaw: The Condensed Shaw Alphabet Edition of Edgar Allan Poe

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The Shaw Alphabet Edition of the Dhammapada

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The History of Yacht Racing in Minnesota: How Its Sailors and Boat Builders Transformed Competitive Sailing in America; 1870-2022

Poe Meets Shaw: The Shaw Alphabet Edition of Edgar Allan Poe

Poe Meets Shaw: The Condensed Shaw Alphabet Edition of Edgar Allan Poe

The Shaw Alphabet Edition of the Dhammapada