The Yachting Photography of Willard B. Jackson at Marblehead 1898-1937

Photographer: Willard B. Jackson

Author: Matthew P. Murphy

Publisher/Date: Commonwealth, 2006

Format/Condition: NEW oversized hardcover book with dust jacket in fine condition. 192 pages, measures 11×11 inches.

Description: For 40 years, Willard Jackson trolled the waters off Marblehead, Massachusetts, in a custom motor launch carrying a wooden camera and a box of glass-plate negatives. His quarry was any significant yacht, military vessel, or working craft that made its way into or out of that mecca of American sailing, and a century later his work forms a singular record of the early development of the American yacht.

WoodenBoat editor Matthew Murphy has selected 75 of these superb photographs for this album—including Joshua Slocum’s Spray and the USS Constitution, revisiting Marblehead in 1931—and gives each boat a detailed description.