GARY JOBSON An American Sailing Story by Jobson, Gary with Cynthia Goss - 2011

White River Junction, Vermont: Nomad Press. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. 9781936313761; Binding is almost as new. Author's signed inscription on the ffep. Contents are almost as new. DJ is amost as new. ; First Printing of the FIRST EDITION, 2011. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR on ffep (I5/12/15 To Tom Bishop. --- Sail Swiftly. Gary Jobson) . 10-1/4" Tall, VIII + 245pp. Medium gray boards, bright silver spine and front cover lettering. BOATING. Jobson won the America's Cup in 1977 and the legenday Fastnet Race in 1979, both as a tactician for Ted Turner. For more than four decades Gary tirelessly promoted the sport of sailing to audiences around the world; . Through lecture tours, books, events, and as ESPN's sailing commentator, Gary's face and voice became synonymous with sailing in America. Through the passage of a bout with lymphoma and the calm of remission, he looks at how his life has intertwined with some of the great sailors, how the sport has changed snce his childhood sailing days, how the public view of sailing went through a revolutionry change with the advent of ESPN, how sailing bonds and friendships enddure like no others, and how sailing can offer the highest of adventures to the simplest of pleasures. " 16-page full-color photo section plus dozens of b/w photos in the text, many of them full-page. .