Yacht Designing and Planning

by Howard Irving Chapelle

Hardcover, 1971

Status

Available

Call number

623.8

Collection

Publication

WW Norton & Co (1971), Edition: New edition, 376 pages

Description

This guide to yacht designing includes discussions of contemporary design and materials as they influence the yacht designer's work. Written primarily for the beginner, the book first gives directions for the use of tools and suggestions for material and other equipment. Successive chapters cover specific problems relating to the preliminary design, the lines, construction and joiner plans, and sail plans, with full discussion and directions for handling the many problems involved. A significant chapter describes in detail the complete process of drawing the lines of a yacht as it is done in practice.

Language

Original language

English

ISBN

0393031691 / 9780393031690

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