Wind Star The Building of a Sailship [Paperback]

A Finnish-born American entrepreneur builds his dream ship, the first modern sailing cruise ship, with a team of shipping business men, naval architects, and engineers, wise shipbuilders, a temperamental designer and an essential woman. Thirty years later, the ship and her sisters are still in service on the world’s oceans.

Joseph Novitski, a life-long sailor and world-class ocean-racing titleholder, was on the staff ofThe New York Timesand for decades has followed developments in wind propulsion for commercial shipping.
 

“You want to cheer. You also want to go sailing.” —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt,The New York Times