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the largest longship ever found—thirty-two metres long, with a single-watch crew of eighty that could have been doubled for war. Dating to the early eleventh century, it is of the dimensions the sagas give for the highest rank of royal warships.
Neil Price • The Children of Ash and Elm
The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.
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While haunting the maritime thrift stores look for a book called Charts of the Chesapeake and buy it for about five dollars.
Keith Carver • Sailboat Cowboys Flipping Sail Post-Sandy: The Art of Buying, Repairing and Selling Storm-Damaged Sailboats
Yachtmaster for Sail and Power: A Manual for the RYA Yachtmaster® Certificates of Competence
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