The America's Cup: How It Was Won by the Yacht America in 1851 and Has Been Since Defended (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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I have written this With the intention of making it a book of reference, not only during the pending contests, but in all the future contests, of Which I expect to see not a few in this country before I realize the prime oh ject of my present ambition, Which is to retire to Nan tucket, and become the happy owner of a twenty-foot cat-boat, the fastest in the harbor.

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