Download or read book The Chinese Sailing Rig written by Derek Van Loan and published by Paradise Cay Publications. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese Sailing Rig: Design and Build Your Own Junk Rig is a stem-to-stern guide for the Western sailor who wants to junk rig any hull. Words and drawings clearly explain in detail concepts that have been successfully used for millenia in the Orient. Using Western materials and techniques, Derek walks the amateur designer/builder through all the steps to successfully junk rig their hull of choice. The emphasis is on adaptation of the Chinese rig to Western hulls. Clear and concise, The Chinese Sailing Rig does in a small book what others have attempted in much larger volumes. This edition is an update of the original that has been selling worldwide since 1981. "Van Loan squeezes into a small paperback what Hasler and McLeod did in a large hardback. Van Loan manages to get a lot of information over remarkably well." Classic Boat"Offers good basic instruction for fitting a junk rig to a boat of your choice...this book will, most importantly, help to keep it simple." Robin Blain; Hon. Sec. Junk Rig Association
Download or read book The Chinese Sailing Rig written by Derek Van Loan and published by . This book was released on 1981-03-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Practical Junk Rig written by H.G. Hasler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopaedic volume synthesises 25 years of research and development of this unique rig as adapted to western craft. It is a work which has been welcomed by the growing number of yachtsmen and designers throughout the world who already enjoy the benefits of junk rig or who wish to do so. Now available as an ebook for the first time, Practical Junk Rig examines the design and aerodynamic theory behind junk rigs and discusses how best to sail them. It outlines the rig in detail, the principles that underlie it, considers possible alternative shapes and arrangements and analyses performance, all assisted by a wealth of detailed line illustrations.
Download or read book The Elements and Practice of Rigging and Seamanship written by David Steel and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short History of the Sailing Ship written by Romola Anderson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amply illustrated book traces evolution of the sailing ship over the course of 6,000 years — from vessels of ancient Egypt to full-rigged clipper ships of the 19th century. 20 halftones and 134 figures.
Download or read book Rigging written by Danilo Fabbroni and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2008-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy, step-by-step guide containing everything you need to know about standing and running rigging on a boat.
Download or read book Chinese Junks on the Pacific written by Hans Konrad Van and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of ten Chinese junks that sailed to the United States in the early twentieth century: why they came to the West and the reception they received.
Download or read book Don Casey s Complete Illustrated Sailboat Maintenance Manual Including Inspecting the Aging Sailboat Sailboat Hull and Deck Repair Sailboat Refinishing Sailbo written by Don Casey and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2005-09-15 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide from the world's best-known sailboat maintenance expert Don Casey’s Complete Illustrated Sailboat Maintenance Manual combines six core volumes into a single, utterly dependable resource that answers every frequent question, explains every major system, and helps you keep your boat and its components shipshape. More than 2,500 clear and detailed illustrations guide you step by step through every procedure. Casey’s technical virtuosity, his user-friendly explanations, and Peter Compton's diesel engine expertise make even the more complicated repairs and improvements easy to understand. This must-have guide saves you time, money, and grief as you learn the fastest, easiest, most effective ways to: Evaluate the condition of your boat or one you’re about to purchase Repair structural damage to your fiberglass sailboat Improve or repair your sailboat’s electrical system Troubleshoot, maintain, and repair your boat’s diesel engine Put a professional-looking finish on your boat’s hull, deck, spars, wood, and trim Make and repair sails, sail covers, dodgers, awnings, sailbags, and bimini tops
Download or read book The Chinese Navy written by and published by Smashbooks. This book was released on 2012 with total page 343 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 Ancient Engineers Inventions written by Cesare Rossi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-03-13 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in an age in which one can easily think that our generation has invented and discovered almost everything; but the truth is quite the opposite. Progress cannot be considered as sudden unexpected spurts of individual brains: such a genius, the inventor of everything, has never existed in the history of humanity. What did exist was a limitless procession of experiments made by men who did not waver when faced with defeat, but were inspired by the rare successes that have led to our modern comfortable reality. And that continue to do so with the same enthusiasm. The study of the History of Engineering is valuable for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that it can help us to understand the genius of the scientists, engineers and craftsmen who existed centuries and millenniums before us; who solved problems using the devices of their era, making machinery and equipment whose concept is of such a surprising modernity that we must rethink our image of the past.
Download or read book Ships of China written by Valentin A. Sokoloff and published by Valentin a Sokoloff. This book was released on 1982-05 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Practical Junk Rig written by H.G. Hasler and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-07-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopaedic volume synthesises 25 years of research and development of this unique rig as adapted to western craft. It is a work which has been welcomed by the growing number of yachtsmen and designers throughout the world who already enjoy the benefits of junk rig or who wish to do so. Now in paperback for the first time, Practical Junk Rig examines the design and aerodynamic theory behind junk rigs and discusses how best to sail them. It outlines the rig in detail, the principles that underlie it, considers possible alternative shapes and arrangements and analyses performance, all assisted by a wealth of detailed line illustrations. 'There is no better or more compehensive work on the subject available... it should be considered THE handbook on junk rigs for anyone interested in the subject' Sailing 'I cannot recommend this book too highly' Classic Boat
Download or read book The Chinese Sailing Rig written by Derek Van Loan and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese Sailing Rig - Designing and Building Your Own is a practical handbook which emphasizes adapting western hulls to a Chinese rig. Its take a hammer in one hand and a nail in the other approach leads the amateur designer/builder through all the steps from dream to voyage. The emphasis here is on practical. Everything this book presents has been done and tried, before being explained in words and diagrams.This edition is an update of the original edition which has been selling around the world since 1981.
Download or read book Bumfuzzle written by Patrick Schulte and published by bumfuzzle.com. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a young couple with no prior sailing experience who set out to circle the world. Four years later they return as circumnavigators. An inspiring look at what it takes to achieve the dream of sailing around the world, and proof that it can be done.
Download or read book Illustrated Custom Boatbuilding written by Bruce Roberts-Goodson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Royce s Sailing Illustrated written by Patrick M. Royce and published by ProStar Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
