Dick Carter: Yacht Designer

Dick Carter: Yacht Designer

Author: Dick Carter

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-13

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9781912621316

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The fascinating autobiography of Dick Carter who won the Fastnet Race in his first go at boat design. This and his other highly innovative designs established a new look and ingenious technological concepts for racing yachts that seem routine today, such as separated rudders, trim tabs, internal mast halyards, oversize headsails and lifting keels.


Offshore Sailing: 200 Essential Passagemaking Tips

Offshore Sailing: 200 Essential Passagemaking Tips

Author: William G. Seifert

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2001-11-26

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0071705929

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In a book that is sure to become a classic, internationally respected boatbuilder, yacht manager, and delivery skipper Bill Seifert shares his hard-won solutions to a host of boat design, construction, and equipment issues and seamanship dilemmas. Unlike other books on the subject, Offshore Sailing doesn’t just tell readers what to do for safe and comfortable passage making; it shows them how to do it with clear, step-by-step instructions and nearly 200 detailed drawings and photographs.


The Best Used Boat Notebook

The Best Used Boat Notebook

Author: John Kretschmer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-11-14

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1493083384

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With the used boat market growing and becoming more complex, here is the book that all boat buyers have been waiting for: John Kretschmer's Used Boat Notebook has long been one of the most popular features in Sailing Magazine where Kretschmer provides a hard hitting, detailed review of a well-known boat each month. In this new collection, Kretschmer dedicates each chapter to an individual boat, providing the same fine details and updated information that made his magazine column a success. The thoroughly researched reviews of the 40 most popular boats include owner insights, a guide to common problems and suggestions on where to find parts, advice and support. There are plenty of books that offer general information on what to look for in an offshore boat, but only this book focuses on the specifics a prospective buyer is looking for.


Principles of Yacht Design

Principles of Yacht Design

Author: Lars Larsson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-03-17

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1472981936

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Principles of Yacht Design has established itself as the standard book on the subject for practising designers, naval architecture students, discerning boat owners as well as the boatbuilding industry as a whole. The fifth edition is completely revised and expanded. It examines every aspect of the process of yacht and powerboat design. The new edition includes new findings from recent research in aero and hydrodynamics, as well as covering the most recent changes to building standards. The authors have used a newly built 41-foot performance cruiser to demonstrate the practical application of yacht design theory. This new edition includes photos of the building process and detailed explanations.


Elements of Yacht Design

Elements of Yacht Design

Author: Norman L. Skene

Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781574091342

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Norman L. Skene was one of America's foremost yacht designer. Maynard Bray is a maritime historian.


The Complete Book of Laser Sailing

The Complete Book of Laser Sailing

Author: Richard L. Tillman

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2005-06-15

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 0071792104

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CHAPTER 1. Loomings. Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.