Reviews
"...an extensive and detailed history...[Snow and Lee] recount the outstanding history of the Bath shipyard which built some of the largest wooden sailing vessels the world has ever seen. Through Snow's lively text and Lee's exquisite construction drawings, readers will come to know wooden shipbuilding at its zenith in the city of ships, Bath, Maine." --The Maine Journal of Antiques and Collectibles "...the lore of wooden shipbuilding treasured up in A Shipyard in Maine." --Yankee Magazine "Outstanding Academic Titles, 1999" --Choice "Remarkable...This book is a massive and truly brilliant work of regional merchant shipping history. It is extraordinarily well researched, very well illustrated with relevant photographs, which are always with the appropriate text, and with excellent structural drawings. It is massively referenced and documented, and, at the same time, it succeeds in being highly readable a model for academic writing." --Basil Greenhill, Maritime Life and Traditions "Sam Percy and Frank Small were two Maine men whose combined skill and spunk made their mark on Maine maritime history....In just two decades, as a 500--year era of wooden boat building was drawing to a close, their small yard launched over three--dozen magnificent four--, five--, and, incredibly, six--masted schooners. Over 200 black--and--white photographs and a half--dozen color plates, complemented by co--researcher Capt. Douglas K. Lee's meticulously detailed construction drawings, illustrate the remarkable engineering, aesthetic grace and seaworthiness of these vessels.... The book chronicles how Percy and Small ran their shipyard with ingenuity, strategy and determination long before the days of modern technology and its applications with regard to boat building or to business management and marketing, for that matter. What could be simply a comprehensive technical and historical reference, is also a highly entertaining read." --Sunday Kennebec Journal
