A Unit of Water, a Unit of Time: Joel White's Last Boat Paperback - 2000
by Douglas Whynott
Six months after being diagnosed with cancer, Joel White, son of the legendary writer E.B. White, began designing the W-76, a wooden sailboat--his final masterpiece. This book offers a poignant depiction of a genius at work even as he faces his own mortality.
First line
It's a good day for sailing, at Center Harbor in Brooklin, Maine.
From the rear cover
In a time when racing boats are mass-produced from synthetic materials, a dying breed of craftsman continues to build wooden sailboats of astonishing beauty. Boatbuilding is an ancient art, and Joel White was a master. Son of the legendary writer E.B. White, he was raised around boats and his designs were as sublime and graceful as his father's prose. At a boatyard in Maine, White and his closely knit team of builders brought scores of his creations from blueprints into the ocean.
In June 1996, six months after being diagnosed with cancer, Joel White began designing the W-76, an exquisite racing yacht. It was his final masterpiece. Douglas Whynott spent a year at Brooklin Boat Yard, observing as this design took shape, first in sketches and then during the painstaking building of the wooden craft.
The result is the poignant tale of both a genius at work and the people devoted to his art. Evoking E.B. White's New England and its salty residents, A UNIT OF WATER, A UNIT OF TIME is a classic portrait of dignity, charm, and humble magnificence -- and of a maritime community that keeps a vanishing world alive.
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- Title A Unit of Water, a Unit of Time: Joel White's Last Boat
- Author Douglas Whynott
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Printing
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Atria Books, New York
- Date 2000-05-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780671785260 / 0671785265
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Boatyards - Maine - Brooklin, Brooklin Boat Yard (Brooklin, Me.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00022751
- Dewey Decimal Code 623.809
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