Dorothy Elizabeth: Building a Traditional Wooden Schooner

At age eighty, the author decides it is time to build a new yacht. His methods are as surprising as his timing.

This is the story of Dorothy Elizabeth, a 28-foot schooner. Particularly, it is the story of why to build a traditional wooden sailing vessel that relies on age-old methods and materials, yet also embraces newfangled technologies. But mostly it is the story of the people-a score of craftsmen and craftswomen, friends, and family-who give their skill, advice, support, ingenuity, and ...