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Nov. 24

Seems like just yesterday

Last Updated (25 November 2009)
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E-newsletter - Each month, contributing writer Steve Knauth digs through the archives of maritime museums, out-of print books and the Soundings photo files in search of images that portray boating in a bygone era. We picked four of our "Just Yesterday" photo essays from the last two years that show how our favorite pastime has changed through the decades - or perhaps hasn't changed. Formerly known as "Passages," it runs on the last page of each issue of Soundings.

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You are about to enter another dimension

The year is 1957, and for a new generation of American boaters, watching television in the cockpit came as naturally as smoking a pipe. ... more
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Launching a new era

It's launch day in 1912 at the Dauntless Shipyard in Essex, Conn. A flushdeck power cruiser, built at the yard and appropriately dressed for the occasion, is about to move down the ways. ... more
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America tests the waters

Postwar prosperity, the new middle class "leisure time," and a focus on family made the 1950s and '60s a heady time for the industry. ... more
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With time to kill and nowhere to go

Sailor Frank Cowper once said to enjoy sailing, you have to have "plenty of time and not really wish to get anywhere particular."  ... more

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