Designs to Inspire
Designs to Inspire

Author: Anne Bray

Publisher: WoodenBoat Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780937822630

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At the present time, fulfilled by their lifelong passion for wooden boats, and with their children-Kathy, Nat, and Sarah-out on their own, Anne and Maynard are searching for a vintage Vespa motorscooter and the youthful feeling that goes with it.

All this and Sailing, Too
All this and Sailing, Too

Author: Olin Stephens

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780913372890

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Olin Stephens is the most successful racing-yacht designer of the 20th century, a legend in his own time almost from the day in 1931 when he and his brother Rod and father Roderick, Sr. finished a transatlantic race to England in the revolutionary 52' yawl Dorade a full two days ahead of the competition. His autobiography begins with youthful family sailing, moves on to Six-Metre designs and victories, to J-Boat experience in the 1930s, to war work in the 1940s, to American Cup design and sailing from 1958 to 1983, and to a fleet of great cruising and racing yachts in between. This personal history of Olin and his brother, Rod, of the renowned design firm of Sparkman and Stephens, and of international yachting in this century, is informed, introspective, eloquent.

Yacht Designing and Planning
Yacht Designing and Planning

Author: Howard I. Chapelle

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9780393037562

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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.

Adventures in the Trade Wind
Adventures in the Trade Wind

Author: Richard Dey

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2009-08-20

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1462821634

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This is at once the biography of an Englishman who became the pioneering charterboat skipper of an American yacht, and a history of the charterboat business in the islands. Morris Nicholson’s story reflects a time now all but vanished in the islands, beginning when they were neglected colonial outposts and a single yacht meant income for the islanders. In no other book is there an account of how skippered yachts, bareboats, and headboats came to sail the Caribbean Sea and became an economic sector. However it is Nicholson’s story—and his stories of others—that drives the narrative and fills it with human interest.