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

Chapelle, Howard Irving

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393037568 ISBN 13: 9780393037562

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1995

Synopsis

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 plan, and sail plans, with full discussion and directions for the handling of the many problems involved. Of very real importance is the chapter describing in detail the complete process of drawing the lines of a yacht as it is done in actual practice. A chapter is devoted to the list of items that should be described in the specifications. The author has written a practical handbook which explains, with the help of many drawings and diagrams, methods as actually carried out in the drafting room. The book approaches the subject entirely from the point of view of American requirements and conditions.

About this title

About the Author:

Howard I. Chapelle was curator of the Museum of Transportation at the Smithsonian Institution and was for many years senior historian there.

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0393037568
• ISBN 13: 9780393037562
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 378