17 Designs From The Board Of John G. Hanna ~1971~ Tahiti Yacht Sailboat Nautical

by John G. Hanna, John Stephen Doherty

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1971. Staple Bound. Binding sound. Pages appear clean, unmarked. Pages, covers, corners and edges have moderate shelf wear, foxing, staining and aging. Good condition. About the designer: John Griffin Hanna (1889–1948) was an American sailboat designer, famous for designing the Tahiti ketch. Hanna was born in Galveston, Texas and became deaf as a child following a bout with scarlet fever. Also, he lost a foot in a traffic accident. Around 1917, he settled in Dunedin, Florida, and was greatly influenced by the Greek double-ended sponge boats found in nearby Tarpon Springs, Florida. Shortly after his move to Dunedin, Hanna purchased a double-ended ketch-rigged sponge boat that had been built in Apalachicola, Florida by a Greek-American shipwright named Demo George. This vessel, and others that Hanna studied, would inspire the design of Hanna's famous Tahiti ketch.

• Publisher: Seven Seas Press, New York
• Year: 1971
• Condition: Good

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