A Look Back Into the History of Boatbuilding | Soundings Online

'Down to the sea in ships’

A boatload of fishermen out of Gloucester, Mass., pull in their catch, where a dip net from the mother ship will transfer the fish aboard. Few occupations have so captured the imagination as the Gloucester fisherman — in poetry, prose, painting and such films as “Captains Courageous” and “The Perfect Storm.”

Life aboard a lightship

On a chilly November day in 1939, the brand-new Cornfield Point lightship maneuvered into position off the mouth of the Connecticut River, three miles south of the Lynde Point Lighthouse in Old Saybrook, Conn. Dropping a mushroom anchor into the shallows of Long Sand Shoal, she took up her station. The bright-red, iron-hulled ship would remain there — shining her light, sounding her foghorn — for the next 32 years, a welcome symbol of safe haven to recreational and commercial skippers alike.

The perfect pyramid

Members of Oregon’s Lake Oswego Water Ski Club flawlessly perform that favorite formation of the water ski show, the five-person pyramid. It’s 1960 and (from left) Gloria Larsen and Val Davidson ride on the shoulders of Lita Schiel Grigg, Bob Barnum and Karen Kiskey Brooks, practicing for their summer performances.

You don't have to come back

Surfmen of the Michigan City, Ind., lifesaving station on Trail Creek strike a leisurely pose for the camera in 1905. The man in the stern, steering oar in hand, is likely the station’s keeper, Alan Kent.

Fish on!

A tarpon “dances on its tail” off the Bahia Honda Bridge in the lower Florida Keys in a photo taken aboard Capt. Elmo Capo’s charter boat Fiji III out of Marathon, Fla.

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