Book

A good boat speaks for itself : Isle Royale fishermen and their boats

Call Number

  • H 639.2 C6638 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.

Physical Description

xx, 242 p. : ill., maps ; 21 x 21 cm.

Contents

  • [pt]. 1. A maritime way of life
  • Island people
  • The Scandinavian fishing era
  • [pt]. 2. Running boats and the craft of fishing
  • "A kind of scientific fishery"
  • Fishing technology
  • Conservatism and innovation
  • [pt]. 3. Island boats
  • Boat types
  • Mackinaws : "The greatest surf-boat known"
  • Old world connections
  • The gas boat
  • The gas boat Belle and the Johnson family fishery
  • The Sivertson family fishery
  • The gas boat Sivie
  • Another man's solution : the gas boat Moonbeam
  • Inboards, oars, and hookline fishing
  • The launch
  • The fish tug
  • The herring skiff
  • Other boats used on the island
  • [pt]. 4. North shore boatbuilders and the craft of boatbuilding
  • Charles and Reuben Hill and the Hill family
  • Hokan Lind and the Lind family
  • Ole Daniels
  • Chris Ronning and the Dagmar
  • Postscript : parting with gas boats.

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Hawk Tolson