Upper To' Gallants And Rusty Scuppers : Adventures Of An Amateur Mariner

H Peale Haldt Jr relates his experiences as a deckhand during his prep school and college summers aboard vessels from a freighter to a four-masted schooner during the 1930s. Aboard the four-masted barque Sea Cloud, the largest private sailing yacht in the world, he meets Nedenia Hutton, later the actress Dina Merrill, daughter of Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies, owner of Sea Cloud. Upper To'gallants and Rusty Scuppers includes Dina Merrill's letters to Peale, who also sailed around the world aboard the President Lines President Harrison during the summer of 1939, as the world prepared for war--

• | Author: H. Peale Haldt, Harry P Haldt
• | Publisher: Haley'S
• | Publication Date: Sep 04, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 220 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1948380080
• | ISBN-13: 9781948380089