Author: Peter Carnahan. Published by Nimbus Publishing Company, 1989, 1st Edition. Flat SIGNED and dated by the Author. Printed in USA. Like New Condition HARDCOVER BOOK, and Very Good Condition Dust Jacket. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.75 x 5.75 inch, 180 pages.
BONUS: Included FREE with your purchase is a 2004 news clipping from The Chronicle Herald, written by none other than Silver Donald Cameron, about David Stevens!
SCHOONER MASTER, A Portrait of David Stevens, by Peter Carnahan, is a sensitive portrait of this artist in wood who called himself, the last of a breed. The result is an unforgettable close-up of Stevens as a master craftsman and yachtsman, a quiet but commanding presence, and a fierce but gentlemanly competitor.
David Stevens was thirty-eight when he took up the boatbuilding trade. He went on to build more than seventy boats, among them some of the swiftest schooners on the Atlantic coast. He was given Canada's highest honour, the Order of Canada for his work as a master craftman of schooners. Some of Stevens' finest and fastest boats were built after his retirement, when he worked alone in the shed behind his home. He was equally skilled as a sailor and even in his retirement years won numerous international sailing competitions at the helm of his own boats.
