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STREET, TIM: : Two Hundred Years of Salcombe Yachting. [Author SIGNED copy.]

UK.SALCOMBE,DEVON.SALCOMBE MARITIME MUSEUM,2019.

ISBN 9781527247352.

UK,slim small 8vo wraps,author SIGNED,1st edn. [An association copy.] FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten black ink inscrptn,a dedication and signatured association example: 'To Mrs Eira Rose with Gratefull thanks for all your help with the Mayflowers Tim Street.' to the title page and no price removal from card cover.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,sharp-cornered, contemporary sepia photographic yachting riverscape front cover with black lettering,a grey background to spine/backstrip with black lettering and no reading creases to same,rear cover with narrow,horizontal yachting-scene colour photograph to top edge,remainder of cover with grey background and black text to same,and alongside,a white panel with black text of a potted biography of the author to same. Negligible shelf-wear to edges - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips' possibly unread apart from my own collation.UK, slim,small 8vo wraps,author SIGNED,1st edn,5- 109pp [paginated] includes author's Preface with thanks,an Introduction,11 chapters accompanied with contemporary b/w (the majority) and colour photographs,an appendix - list of Salcombe A Class yachts,a colour map of Salcombe Yacht Club's Course as penultimate paginated page,last page as a thumbnail colour photographic illustrated Salcombe Maritime Museum advert with blank verso; plus [unpaginated] 2pp blank,author signed title page and to the rear,10pp blanks. An association example as author's dedication is to Mrs Eira Roue of Plymouth,widow of Gordon Roue,one of Pymouth boat-builder Kenneth Skentlebery's apprentices.Mrs Roue provided information and history on the Mayflower Class boats.Skentlebery was born in 1899 in Plymouth. By 1921 he had statrted his own boatbuilding business at Laira Bridge in Plymouth.By the 1930s the yard was building yachts,motorboats and 14ft RNSA dinghies,cutters and whalers for the Royal Navy,and securing contracts during the 1939-45 war.Post-war he designed the Mayflower Class boat,built at Laira in 1945.By 1946, Skentlebery had acquired his 2nd boatyard,but in Salcombe - as the early Mayflowers hulls were built in Plymouth and later finished there,in Salcombe. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it’s nature, i.e. an ephemeral softback book.It really is an exceptional example for its cleanliness,brightness and interesting local nautical and yachting history,particularly author SIGNED. The Salcombe-Kingsbridge Estuary contains one of the most beautiful sailing areas in the world and is the home of the famous Salcombe Yawl - one of the oldest classes still racing on its original water.With numerous previously unpublished photographs,Tim Street tells the story of Salcombe's rise as a yachting centre and its distinctive racing classes,which beside the Yawl,include the Salcombe A,B, C'c,Saints and Stars. A local resident between 1933 and 2014,Tim Street first sailed in the Salbombe Regatta in 1939 and last raced there in 2011.Progressing from a pram dinghy,he later owned two National 12s,an International 14ft and,for 38 years,Y7 Choice.A well-known international helmsman in Dragons,Solings and International Six-Metres,Tim re-founded the Britsh Six-Metre fleet in 1985 and was the first British President of the International Six-Metre Association. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

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