“Must be considered ... a standard work.”—Yachting Monthly.
“Mr. Keble Chatterton’s final chapter on the development of the fore and aft rig will be of special interest to yachtsmen.”—Daily News.
“This is a heartfelt book ... it will long hold first place as an authoritative work.”—Nation (New York).
“A work full of fascination, and abounding with accurate information.”—The Field.
“It is just the sort of book to have for handy reference on board the yacht when one sits on deck in the gloaming of the second dog-watch smoking a pipe and arguing with a nautical friend. It is a book, too, for the marine artist, its one hundred and thirty illustrations being technically correct.”—The Dial (Chicago).
“Mr. Chatterton has produced a valuable book.”—Daily Chronicle.
“Altogether it is the most absorbing historical work of its kind I have ever read.”—Collier’s Weekly.
“... Likely to be recognised as a standard work on the subject....”—Court Journal.
“There isn’t one ‘dry’ or uninteresting page in the whole treatise.”—Maritime Review.
“A work that will prove a veritable classic of the sea, and make of him the standard historian of the sailing ship.”—Nautical Magazine.