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Coastal Nostalgia: Pacific Motor Boat Handbook
The Second Edition April 15, 1931
The 2nd edition is prefaced with the following: “The truly amazing success of the Pacific Motor Boat’s 1930 Handbook Edition, led this journal to produce …better… more complete… Nor were yachtsmen alone in uttering their appreciation…for commercial boat operators, boat builders and many other came forward”. This must have been quite the handy dandy book for pleasure yachters; something akin to today’s Dreamspeaker or Waggoner Cruising Guides.
And our boating waters are still of an international class!!
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