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Further Reading

HISTORY

Sailing from Polis to Empire: Ships in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic Period edited by Emmanuel Nantet (2021) - OPEN ACCESS

Alan Villiers: Voyager of the Winds by Kate Lance (2020) - OPEN ACCESS

Falmouth for Orders: The Story of the Last Clipper Ship Race Around Cape Horn by Alan Villiers (1976)

"Annie Watt: The career of a coastal trading ketch," by Rick Bullers. The Great Circle, vol. 36, no. 1 (January, 2014). - OPEN ACCESS

Podcast on the history of the Galway Hooker - "Episode 10: Hookers, Nobbies & Zulus - Cóilín Ó hIarnáin," Galway City Museum (April, 2015). 

HUDSON RIVER

Sloops of the Hudson by William Edward Verplanck, Moses Wakeman Collyer, and George Davis Woosley (1908) - OPEN ACCESS

Sloops of the Hudson River: A Historical and Design Survey by Paul Fontenoy (1995)

"Operation of a sail freighter on the Hudson River: Schooner Apollonia in 2021," by Steve Woods and Sam Merrett, Journal of Merchant Wind Ship Energy, March, 2022. - OPEN ACCESS

TECHNICAL

Wind Propulsion for Ships of the American Merchant Marine by the Wind Ship Development Corporation (1981) - OPEN ACCESS

Research Center, International Windship Association - OPEN ACCESS

Proceedings of Regional Conference on Sail-Motor Propulsion by the Asian Development Bank (1985) - OPEN ACCESS

"Sail Freight Revival: Methods Of Calculating Fleet, Labor, And Cargo Needs For Supplying Cities By Sail" master's thesis by Steve Woods (March, 2021) - OPEN ACCESS