Schooner: Building a Wooden Boat on Martha's Vineyard

This is the story of Ross Gannon and Nat Benjamin and the Gannon and Benjamin Marine Railway where the sailing vessel Rebecca was designed and built. Gannon and Benjamin is one of only a few full-time boatyards in the United States devoted exclusively to the design, construction, repair, and maintenance of traditional, plank-on-frame wooden boats--Publisher's description.

Tom Dunlop, a lifelong year-round and summer resident of the Island, is the author of Morning Glory Farm and the Family that Feeds an Island, with photographs by Alison Shaw, and co-editor of the second edition of the Vineyard Gazette Reader. He is a former editor of Martha's Vineyard Magazine, where he is now a contributing writer. He has worked as an actor, fund-raiser for an off-Broadway theater company, and writer for the Vineyard Gazette. He lives in New York City, where he also works as a film producer. Tom sails a replica of a Herreshoff 12-1/2 sloop.
Alison Shaw moved to Martha's Vineyard "just for the summer" in 1975 and has been a year-round resident ever since. Her work has graced nine books, as well as numerous magazines and newspapers across the country. Growing up, her family sailed the waters of the Chesapeake Bay and beyond in a thirty-eight-foot yawl, including occasional voyages to the Vineyard. The Alison Shaw Gallery, home of Alison's fine art photography. Is in the Arts District of Oak Bluffs. www.alisonshaw.com