Join the Barnegat Bay Maritime Museum as it welcomes
Kent Mountford, PhD, author of Silent Maid, A Catboat History
for an free virtual book talk LIVE ON ZOOM!
Friday, June 25th, 2021 at 7 pm
Published in Hardcover, 2014; 303 pages with 400 illustrations and maps $45.00
Silent Maid: A Catboat History her Bay, her People, and Legacy
A sailing yacht carries seven families across parts of nine decades: 1923-2013
Silent Maid: A Catboat History her Bay, her People, and Legacy
A sailing yacht carries seven families across parts of nine decades: 1923-2013
Silent Maid sailed through the lives of seven American families, with varying goals and lifestyles. The history, lives and environment of each is meticulously developed in this unusual book, showing the impacts in which this yacht participated upon various elements of society, from the canyons of Wall Street to the liberation of modern women. In each life, this big catboat played an important role.
Dr. Kent Mountford, an ecologist and historian, grew up on this classic Barnegat Bay “B” Class sailing yacht learning about seamanship, managing one of the largest catboats in existence, and enough about Barnegat Bay marine life that he emerged after 1964 as a burgeoning marine ecologist. He wrote Closed Sea a Barnegat Bay history (Down-the-shore Pub., 2002), was a contributor to The Ecology of Barnegat Bay (Elsevier, 1983), to Discovering the Chesapeake (Johns Hopkins, 2001), and co-author of John Smith’s Chesapeake Voyages 1607-1609 (Univ. VA Press, 2007). He published nearly 200 “Past as Prologue” articles and columns in the Chesapeake Bay Journal from 1997-2012 all of which are archived online at: www.bayjournal.com
Dr. Kent Mountford, an ecologist and historian, grew up on this classic Barnegat Bay “B” Class sailing yacht learning about seamanship, managing one of the largest catboats in existence, and enough about Barnegat Bay marine life that he emerged after 1964 as a burgeoning marine ecologist. He wrote Closed Sea a Barnegat Bay history (Down-the-shore Pub., 2002), was a contributor to The Ecology of Barnegat Bay (Elsevier, 1983), to Discovering the Chesapeake (Johns Hopkins, 2001), and co-author of John Smith’s Chesapeake Voyages 1607-1609 (Univ. VA Press, 2007). He published nearly 200 “Past as Prologue” articles and columns in the Chesapeake Bay Journal from 1997-2012 all of which are archived online at: www.bayjournal.com
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2216 Piney Creek Rd.
Chester, MD 21619
410-643-8646
Also in select regional bookstores or online at Amazon.com
Fishergate Incorporated
2216 Piney Creek Rd.
Chester, MD 21619
410-643-8646
Also in select regional bookstores or online at Amazon.com
