Sequoia Presidential Yacht

Internet Bookwatch, Feb, 2005

Sequoia Presidential Yacht

Giles M. Kelley, Captain, USNR (Ret.)

Ann Stevens, photographer

Tidewater Publishers

c/o Cornell Maritime Press

PO Box 456, Centreville, Maryland 21617

0870335618 $19.95 www.amazon.com

Written by a seaman through and through whose service include four years of sea duty in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Sequoia Presidential Yacht is the amazing portrait of the Sequoia, a 104-foot yacht that has served eight sitting American presidents. Extensively researched an illustrated throughout with rare black-and-white and color photographs, Sequoia Presidential Yacht is in many ways a biography--but a biography of a sturdy and faithful vessel rather than a person. Especially recommended for yacht history and presidential trivia buffs.