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 The Book of the Sailboat written by A. Hyatt Verrill and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Book of the Sailboat: How to Rig, Sail and Handle Small Boats The Book of the Sailboat: How to Rig, Sail and Handle Small Boats was written by A. Hyatt Verrill in 1916. This is a 198 page book, containing 51124 words and 26 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The book of the sailboat written by A. Hyatt Verrill and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the famous original which has originally been published in 1916.
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Choosing a Cruising Sailboat written by Roger Marshall and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1999-05-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this one-of-a-kind book, leading boat designer Roger Marshall walks you through the process of choosing the perfect boat for your sailing lifestyle. Along the way, you will acquire a deep understanding of the many factors that go into a boat's performance, comfort, and seaworthiness, and learn how to choose among them to meet your requirements and preferences. Best of all, you'll find Marshall's 12-page comparison table of production sailboats from all over the world, packed with information about 130 boats - length, beam, draft, displacement, ballast, sail area, fuel and water capacities, performance ratios, capaize and comfort ratios, and more, all tabulated for convenient and revealing comparisons.
Download or read book The Classic Guide To Sailing written by E. F. Knight and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating insight into sailing at the turn of the century from a daring and experienced boat sailor.
Download or read book Sailing Big on a Small Sailboat written by Jerry Cardwell and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide outlines the planning, boats and accessories sailors of small sailboats need to safely embark on ambitious journeys.
Download or read book Small Boat Sailing on Sea and River written by E. F. Knight and published by Home Farm Books. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published London 1931. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. A well illustrated book that will prove invaluable to the class of yachtsmen for whom it is intended. Contents Include: The Selection of a Boat. The Effect of the Wind on a Boat. Splices, Knots, and Tackles. The Small Open Sailing Boat. Open Sailing Boats with Boom-Sails, and Half Decked Boats. Decked Boats. Seamanship. Open Boat Sailing. The Cruising Yacht. The Art of Coasting. Decription of a Voyage. Regulations Affecting Yachtsmen. Two Cruises on Lateen-Rigged Craft. Etc.
Download or read book Practical Boat Sailing written by Douglas Frazar and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book The Sailing Boat written by Henry Coleman Folkard and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lapstrake Canoes written by David L. Nichols and published by . This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated guide to building a lapstrake canoe--with free fold-out plans included.
Download or read book Building the Sea Eagles written by David L. Nichols and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough all-color guide to building two small cruising sailboats.
Download or read book Small Boat Sails written by Jeremy Howard-Williams and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building Catherine written by Richard Kolin and published by WoodenBoat Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Kolin has been building boats for 25 years. He has designed and built skiffs for both plywood and plank construction.
Download or read book Small boat Sailing written by Edward Frederick Knight and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sails written by Derek Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains all the information a boatowner needs to fully understand how sails work, and how to design, make, repair and modify them. The do-it-yourself sailmaker can save as much as three-quarters of the cost of small boat sails by making them or recutting old ones, using a little more than a tape measure, scissors and a simple sewing machine.
Download or read book The Sailing Boat written by Henry Coleman Folkard and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Sailing Boat: A Treatise on Sailing Boats and Small Yachts, Their Varieties of Type, Sails, Rig, Etc The first edition of this work was published in the year 1854: that and two subsequent editions were readily disposed of; the fourth, which was published more than thirty years ago, was somewhat hurriedly prepared. The delay since that long period in the preparation of a fifth edition is attributable, mainly, to the fact that the Authors time was almost entirely devoted to his professional occupations, consequently he was unable to give that care and attention to the subject of 'The Sailing Boat' which a new edition seemed to require. The leisure at his command during the last five or six years has given him the opportunity he sought, and enabled him, in this new and much enlarged edition, to make the work more complete and up to date. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book World Cruising Routes written by Jimmy Cornell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to nearly 1,000 sailing routes covering all the oceans of the world, geared specifically to the needs of cruising sailors. It advises on the winds, currents, regional and seasonal weather, and optimum times for individual routes, plus over 6,000 waypoints.
