Yacht Designing and Planning for Yachtsmen, Students and Amateurs

Yacht Designing and Planning for Yachtsmen, Students and Amateurs
Author: Howard I. Chapelle
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2012-12-21
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1447482522

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.

Yacht Designing and Planning

Yacht Designing and Planning
Author: Howard I. Chapelle
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995-10
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780393332599

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

Principles of Yacht Design
Author: Lars Larsson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2022-03-17
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1472981936

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.

Boatbuilding

Boatbuilding
Author: Howard Irving Chapelle
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 632
Release: 1941
Genre: Science
ISBN:

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.