Yacht Designing and Planning: For Yachtsmen, Students, and Amateurs

By Howard Irving Chapelle

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393037568
• ISBN13: 9780393037562
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"