My Yacht Designs and the Lessons They Taught Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Yacht Designs and the Lessons They Taught Me write by Chuck Paine. This book was released on 2010. My Yacht Designs and the Lessons They Taught Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Shaped by Wind & Wave
Shaped by Wind & Wave - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shaped by Wind & Wave write by Dudley Dix. This book was released on 2012-02-23. Shaped by Wind & Wave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a collection of random writings by a boat designer explaining boat design in layman's terms, explanations of various boatbuilding methods, how to loft the lines of a boat, how to turn the hull over and various other boating subjects that you will not find in other books about boat design. It includes a chapter on recommendations for sailing around the Cape of Good Hope and also one about the only circumnavigation ever in an open boat.
Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Started Sailing, Expanded and Updated
Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Started Sailing, Expanded and Updated - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Started Sailing, Expanded and Updated write by John Vigor. This book was released on 2020-06-01. Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Started Sailing, Expanded and Updated available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aimed at sailboat owners of all kinds, this reference book contains 200 entries packed with solid practical advice and valuable tips. Each entry is categorized alphabetically and prefaced by an arresting statement, such as "People always lie about how fast their boats are." The reference format offers readers the opportunity to open the book at any page and browse endlessly. Cartoons by SAIL Magazine cartoonist Tom Payne enliven the text. A comprehensive appendix covers some 50 technical topics. Includes a Foreword by Don Casey. "...it is always interesting and very readable." —Sailing "Filled with practical advice, this book is a winner." — The Ensign "Vigor, who's written for several boating magazines, has brought his experience and sense of humor to bear on the less than ideal experiences of sailing—and he's even alphabetized them...It's fun to page through and you just might learn a thing or two." —Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal "This book is easy to read. It imparts some very valuable information in a fun package." — Good Old Boat "This is a great reference book for those just entering the world of sailing, and entertaining." — Latitudes & Attitudes "Vigor, who's written for several boating magazines, has brought his experience and sense of humor to bear on the less than ideal experiences of sailing—and he's even alphabetized them...It's fun to page through and you just might learn a thing or two." — Soundings
Desirable and Undesirable Characteristics of Offshore Yachts
Desirable and Undesirable Characteristics of Offshore Yachts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desirable and Undesirable Characteristics of Offshore Yachts write by Cruising Club of America. Technical Committee. This book was released on 1987. Desirable and Undesirable Characteristics of Offshore Yachts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Surveys trends in yacht design, discusses safety, modern construction techniques, spars, rigging, sails, and auxiliary equipment, and describes five good boats.
Making Waves
Making Waves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Waves write by Scott M Peters. This book was released on 2015-01-22. Making Waves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Michigan will always be known as the automobile capital of the world, but the Great Lakes State boasts a similarly rich heritage in the development of boat building in America. By the late nineteenth century, Michigan had emerged as the industry’s hub, drawing together the most talented designers, builders, and engine makers to produce some of the fastest and most innovative boats ever created. Within decades, gifted Michigan entrepreneurs like Christopher Columbus Smith, John L. Hacker, and Gar Wood had established some of the nation’s top boat brands and brought the prospect of boat ownership within reach for American consumers from all ranges of income. More than just revolutionizing recreational boating, Michigan boat builders also left their mark on history—from developing the speedy runabouts favored by illicit rum-runners during the Prohibition era to creating the landing craft that carried Allied forces to shores in Europe and the Pacific in WWII. In Making Waves, Scott M. Peters explores this intriguing story of people, processes, and products—of an industry that evolved in Michigan but would change boating across the world.
