Download or read book Spritsails and Lugsails written by John Leather and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spritsails and Lugsails written by John Leather and published by . This book was released on 1989-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sea Fisherman Comprising the Chief Methods of Hook and Line Fishing in the British and Other Seas and Remarks on Nets Boats and Boating Illustrated Second Edition Much Enlarged and Almost Entirely Rewritten written by J. C. WILCOCKS and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Working Guide to Traditional Small Boat Sails written by David L. Nichols and published by Breakaway Books. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make your modern sailboat look (and work) like a salty classic. The Golden Age of Sail is long past, sadly, and much of its lore is nearly extinct. Sailboats now almost uniformly use the Bermudan sloop rig—a triangular jib and a triangular mainsail. But that rig evolved mainly to meet esoteric yacht-racing measurement rules. It is not necessarily the most efficient or effective rig. This book lets sailors rediscover the practical advantages—and the aesthetic delights—of such configurations as the sprit sail, the gaff sail, the lug sail, and the gunter rig. It also includes valuable information on marlinspike work like rope-whipping and eye-splicing; and tips on converting your modern sailboat to a traditional rig. ______________________ Some reviews: “This will become the classic book on traditional rigs for small boats. . . . A concise and thorough compendium on using low-cost and efficient traditional rigs, the kind that not only look better but work better on small boats than their modern counterparts.” —Gary Blankenship, Duckworks Magazine “The ‘traditional’ rigs here are the kind you’ll find on the clinker plywood designs of Iain Oughtred and the like; rigs with polyester sails and running rigging. Tufnol blocks and stainless steel shackles. ‘Modern traditional boats’, if you’ll forgive the phrase. Similarly, there’s a nice mix of old and new the manner the material is presented: old in the cleanliness of the page design; new in the extensive use of colour close-up photographs to illustrate details of the rigs. Highly recommended.” —Water Craft Magazine "Mr. Nichols does an excellent job of explaining the fundamentals in terms that are useful to old salts looking to tweak their rigs, builders trying to figure out what's next, and admirers of traditional design." —Good Old Boat
Download or read book Boatlines written by Ian Stephen and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People are drawn to the harbours and boats of Scotland whether they have a seafaring background or not. Why do boats take on different shapes as you follow the complex shorelines of islands and mainland? And why do the sails they carry appear to be so many shapes and sizes? Then there are rowing craft or power-driven vessels which can also be considered 'classics', whether they were built for work or leisure. As he traces the iconic forms of a selection of the boats of Scotland, Ian Stephen outlines the purposes of craft, past and present, to help gain a true understanding of this vital part of our culture. Sea conditions likely to be met and coastal geography are other factors behind the designs of a wide variety of craft. Stories go with boats. The vessels are not seen as bare artefacts without their own soul but more like living things.
Download or read book Cassell s Complete Book of Sports and Pastimes written by Cassell & Company and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sea fisherman written by James C. Wilcocks and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sails and Sailmaking with Draughting written by Robert Kipping and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inshore Craft written by Basil Greenhill and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive reference work describes and illustrates some 200 types of inshore craft that once fished and traded, under oar and sail, around the coasts of the British Isles. The types are arranged by coastal area and each is described in terms of its shape and design, fitness for location and purpose, build, evolution and geographical distribution. Details of dimensions, rig, building materials, seamanship and the survival of examples are given where known, while hundreds of line drawings and photographs show the vessels in their original forms.A team of twelve experts describe all these boat types and, in addition, there are introductions to the main geographic areas outlining the physical environments, fisheries and other uses of the sea that have influenced boat design; maps of all the areas show ports and physical features.At the beginning of the last century sail and oar dominated fisheries and local trade: one hundred years later those craft have all but vanished. This book brings alive for maritime historians and enthusiasts, traditional boat sailors, modelmakers, and all those with an interest in local history, the vast array of craft that were once such a significant feature of our inshore seas.Inshore Craft is a spectacular achievement—Wooden Boat Magazine
Download or read book Freshwater Heritage written by Don Bamford and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2007-03-30 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freshwater Heritage: A History of Sail on the Great Lakes, 1670-1918 represents the culmination of a lifelong passion for sailing and for the history of sail as it applies to Canada. Author/sailor/boat builder Don Bamford takes us deep into the psyche of sailing as it applies to historical events on the Great Lakes and to stories of the people and places there at the time. His extensive historical research takes us back to the time of European contact, through the fate of the luckless Griffon and the achievements of the French in the era of sail. From the 1760s through to 1815, Bamford chronicles the glory years of the brigs, the schooners, the snows and the warships that dominated the lakes during the war years, with a particular emphasis on the War of 1812 and the race for naval domination of the Great Lakes. Much deserving attention is given to the shipbuilders and to the challenges of constructing these vessels in the wilderness of the colonies, all supported by carefully researched detail. Bamford also documents the critical role played by sailing vessels in the settlement process as newly arrived immigrants struggled to establish a home in a new land. The commercial role of sail on the Great Lakes is captured through the refinements to the schooners, the place of ships in the fur trade, the early days of fishing the lakes as an industry, the role of the timber droghers, the stone hookers and the first ore carriers of the first part of the 20th century. Never before has the place of sailing vessels in the early history of Canada’s Great Lakes been so inclusive, and made so accessible to the general reader. Richly illustrated with archival visuals and photographs of significant works of art, and supported by a full index and extensive end matter, Freshwater Heritage is a must for both the armchair historian and those who love to sail.
Download or read book Cassell s Book of Sports and Pastimes written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sails and Sailmaking written by Robert Kipping and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1887 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also, Weights and Sizes of Ropes; Masting, Rigging, and Sails of Steam Vessels, Etc
Download or read book Sails Sailmaking written by Robert Kipping and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The sea fisherman or Fishing pilotage written by J C. Wilcocks and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidelines for Recording Historic Ships written by Richard Kerfoot Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elementary treatise on Sails and Sail Making Seventh edition enlarged etc written by Robert KIPPING and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fishing at Sea written by J. C. Wilcocks and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2010 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very complete and in many points still actual guide to the art of fishing at sea, first issued in 1884. The author won serveral prizes with this book.