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Download or read book Schooner Sunset written by Douglas Bennet and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2001 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owing to their simplicity of rig and the small fore-and-afters, the coastal schooners, were among the last commercial sailing vessels to remain in existence; today they are gone, as are nearly all the men who sailed in them, and with them the knowledge which was needed to work the vessels by the power of the wind alone. One of them was Douglas Bennett, and in this posthumously-published book he tells of the working life aboard and describes all the facets of construction and fitting out.