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"Once an essential skill, the ability to build a clinker boat, first innovated by the Vikings, can seem incomprehensible today. Yet it was the clinker, with its overlapping planks, that afforded us access to the oceans, and its construction has become a lost art that calls to the do-it-yourselfer in all of us. John Gornall heard the call. A thoroughly unskilled modern man, Gornall set out to build a traditional wooden boat as a gift for his newborn...
3) Rising tides
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English
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Ethan Quinn works to make the family's Chesapeake Bay boatbuilding business a success while struggling--despite his dark and painful past--to find happiness with the woman whom he has always loved.
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Series
Chesapeake Bay volume 1 & 2
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In "Sea Swept" Cameron, a champion boat racer, returns home at the behest of his dying father to care for a troubled young boy, while in "Rising Tides," Ethan Quinn struggles to succeed and find happiness with the woman he loves.