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| List of Maps and Illustrations | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Hewn from the Wilderness: Muskegon's Earliest Days | 1 |
| Trapper, Trader, Soldiers, Spy: The Visit by the HMS Felicity | 4 | |
| 2 | Lumber Days on Muskegon's Waterfront | 7 |
| "Dreadful Endurance": The Neptune and Other Early Shipwrecks of Muskegon | 24 | |
| A Tragic Homecoming: The Wreck of the Granada | 27 | |
| Safe in the Sand: The Trial and the Annie Nelson | 28 | |
| Semper Paratus: The Muskegon Lifesaving Crew and the Wreck of the R. B. King | 29 | |
| "So Terrible a Reality": The Wrecks of the South Haven, the Helen, and the L. J. Conway | 32 | |
| Legend and Mystery: The Fate of the Rouse Simmons and the Thomas Hume | 38 | |
| "Frenchman, he don't lak to die": The Wreck of the Waukesha | 44 | |
| The Charmed Life of the Lyman M. Davis | 48 | |
| 3 | Steamships and Car Ferries of Muskegon | 53 |
| Sailing Blind: The Wreck of the Wabash Valley | 69 | |
| Lost to the Depths: The Wreck of the Alpena | 70 | |
| A Steamer for All Seasons: The Alabama | 74 | |
| Up Against the Big Guns: The Charles H. Hackley | 80 | |
| "Carelessness Becomes a Mortgage to Danger": The Wreck of the Steam Barge Milwaukee | 83 | |
| Trials by Fire: The Naomi and the Nyack | 89 | |
| "They Will Probably Send Me to Hell": The Wreck of the Muskegon | 91 | |
| Adrift in Changing Times: The Story of the Illinois and the Missouri | 98 | |
| The "Queen of the Great Lakes": The Milwaukee Clipper | 101 | |
| All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go: The Aquarama | 104 | |
| "A Monster of Its Kind": Muskegon's First Car Ferry | 106 | |
| The Shenango Legacy: The Grand Trunk Car Ferries | 108 | |
| 4 | Maritime Muskegon in the Twentieth Century | 113 |
| Bad Luck Comes in Threes: The Wreck of the Salvor | 117 | |
| Psychic Intervention: The Wreck of Our Son | 124 | |
| Breakwater Blues: The Wreck of the Henry W. Cort | 126 | |
| Tragedy Averted: The Near-Wreck of the Fred W. Green | 132 | |
| Coming Full Circle: The Highway 16/LST 393 | 133 | |
| Laid-Up Lakers: Steel Strikes of the 1950s | 136 | |
| Breakwater Blues Reprise: The Ordeal of the Makefjell | 139 | |
| Museum Ships: The USS Silversides and the USCGC McLane | 143 | |
| The Halcyon's Days in Muskegon: From Seaside to Scrapheap | 146 | |
| 5 | Muskegon Today: New Ships and Old | 151 |
| Poem: The Good Captain | 155 | |
| App. A | Angus Linklater/The Granada | 157 |
| App. B | Capt. J. D. Dunbar/The R. B. King | 159 |
| App. C | Frank Dulach/The Waukesha | 161 |
| App. D | Frank Dulach Reiterates | 165 |
| App. E | Toronto Evening Telegram/The Lyman M. Davis | 167 |
| App. F | Frank Blakefield/The Erie L. Hackley | 169 |
| App. G | "Doc" Ray Cooke/The Alabama | 171 |
| App. H | Guy E. Jones/The Naomi | 175 |
| App. I | Capt. Edward Miller/The Muskegon | 177 |
| App. J | Lyman Nedeau/The Salvor | 181 |
| Notes | 185 | |
| Glossary | 193 | |
| Bibliography | 197 | |
| Index | 207 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
| WonderClub |
Duane Cartmill
reviewed Beyond the Windswept Dunes: The Story of Maritime Muskegon on May 03, 2014
Beyond the Windswept Dunes
I read this book a couple times before embarking on multiple offshore voyages in the Pacific. Having implemented the tactic recommend by the authors, the parachute and bridle system, I have to warn sailors from relying on it. The ocean can present life threatening situations where the system will fail. Chaotic seas can arise where heaving-to consistently on a single tack is impossible, where no amount of tweaking or adjusting will prevent the bow from being slapped through the wind every so often. If this happens while hanging off a bridle like the Pardey's advocate, the bridle can become tangled in the rudder (ask me how I know). Instead of this book, I would recommend new sailors form their storm tactics around the advice offered by Hal Roth or John Vigor. Next time I find myself in dangerous seas, instead of the Pardey parachute off the bow with bridle system, my tactic of last resort will be a Jordan series drogue off the stern. It is a more robust method, tested extensively by the US Coast Guard and confirmed effective. The Pardey's do mention the Jordan series drogue though they prefer their system because the series drogue is said to be hard to collect after seas subside. I'll take hard to collect over not working when it matters most. There are schemes using a block and windlass or winch to help bring in the drogue. Even if one cuts it loose after, if it saves vessel and crew, it's a grand well spent.
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