Yacht Designing and Planning

Author: Howard I. Chapelle
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393332599
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This most favored book on the subject includes discussions of contemporary design and materials as they influence the yacht designer's work.

Principles of Yacht Design

Author: Lars Larsson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472981936
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
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.

Yacht Designing and Planning for Yachtsmen, Students and Amateurs

Author: Howard I. Chapelle
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447482522
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

American Small Sailing Craft, Their Design, Development, and Construction

Author: Howard Irving Chapelle
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393031430
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
From the author of Yacht Designing and Planning and Boatbuilding: the definitive history and survey of the great classic American small sailing craft.

Elements of Yacht Design

Author: Norman L. Skene
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9781574091342
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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

Boatbuilding

Author: Howard Irving Chapelle
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 632

Book Description
This book serves as a workshop handbook; giving detailed instructions on how to go about each part of a job building a boat and its proper sequence, as well as what must be looked forward to, while performing a given operation. The advantages and disadvantages of each type of construction suitable for amateurs will be described.

Illustrated Custom Boatbuilding

Author: Bruce Roberts-Goodson
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472907965
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 674

Book Description
This book caters specifically for the needs of prospective buyers of production and custom built boats, outlining the pros and cons of all types of boatbuilding materials. It will help owners decide what material is most suitable for their needs and how to customise and modify the boat to suit their particular requirements. With his vast experience of boat design, Bruce Roberts-Goodson gives advice (for both sail and powerboats) on: construction materials and methods special tools required suitable building sites designing and building the interiors engines for sail and power electrical systems for sail and power rigging, sail plans and keels plumbing and equipment Bruce Roberts-Goodson has a thriving boat design business, and with many hundreds of enquiries each day, he is well placed to know what questions customers want answered and what the current trends are.

Boatbuilding

Author: Howard Chappelle
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393035544
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 636

Book Description
Reprint of the Chapelle (Search for Speed Under Sail) original published by Norton in 1941. Now printed on acid-free paper and with a new foreword by Jonathan Wilson. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Grand Ambition

Author: G. Bruce Knecht
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416576002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
Tells the story of Doug Von Allmen's plan to build an extraordinary yacht and the way that the 2008 financial crisis threatened the project and the livelihood of the one thousand employees of the shipyard where it was built.

Yacht Designing and Planning

Author: Howard I. Chapelle
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393037562
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 394

Book 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.