Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from 5, 000 Miles in a 27-Tonner
She was built for Mr. Thomas Tiffany, of New Bedford, and bought by me from him in the summer of 1919, and transferred to the Canadian Register in Toronto.
She is schooner - rigged; her framing is of metal (a special steel alloy approximating bronze; she is planked with Southern pine and oak and decked with white pine. All deck fittings and rail are of teak, and all blocks and deck metal work, save chain plates, are of bronze.
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