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Classic Sail features sailing craft ranging from traditional working vessels and cruising sailboats, to exciting America’s Cup contenders of the past. Kathy Mansfield, whose work is found in nautical magazines including WoodenBoat, Classic Boat, and Water Craft, brings together American and European boats in this very enjoyable pan-Atlantic collection. ¶ Boats featured in this edition include: ¶ The 50-foot Kismet was built in the Fife yard in Scotland in 1898, but later spent five decades in the mud in the east of England. After a four-year restoration, she is racing keenly in British and French regattas. ¶ The 67-foot yawl Black Watch was built at the famous Nevins Boatyard in 1938, designed by Olin Stephens of Sparkman & Stephens. ¶ Dorothy is a 33-foot Thames Rater designed in 1894 by Linton Hope, built of teak planking on oak frames. (One of the earliest classes of Thames racing boats, the class is known now as the Thames A Rater.) ¶ Shenandoah of Sark is a steel 180-foot, three-masted schooner that has circumnavigated the world many times, traveled 500 miles up the Amazon, explored the Niger and Congo rivers, and sails here at the Voiles de St Tropez in France. ¶ Eleanora is a 162-foot replica of the famous Herreshoff 1910 schooner, Westward, built at the van de Graff shipyard in the Netherlands in 2000. ¶ Designed by Clinton Crane in 1937 to serve as his personal yacht, Gleam is built of mahogany and cedar planking on oak. She was influential in the development of the 12 Meter Class, which evolved into the America’s Cup class in 1958. ¶ Bijou II is a 30 Square Meter class boat designed by Knut Reimers and built in Bodensee, Germany. She’s lean and low, 40 feet 9 inches long, but just 29 feet on the waterline, and a beam of only 7 feet. ¶ This 45-foot Sparkman & Stephens ketch, Mermaid, was launched in 1957 at Paul Luke & Sons in East Boothbay, Maine. ¶ These two P Class gaff sloops have been restored by John Anderson in Maine and are sailing in the Mediterran