Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum publishes “Tradition, Speed and Grace: Chesapeake Bay Sailing Log Canoes” this May

The thrill of log canoe racing—four to 18 people in choreographed motion, balancing the strain on the rig, calling out puffs and lifts, eyeing the competition, sailing low on the water with enough horsepower to exceed theoretical hull speed in optimum conditions—is an experience seldom equaled, and one that is explored in a new book, […]

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