Boat & Yacht Building

This is a very beautiful book indeed; it was written by Peter H. Spectre, who is a world popular renowned writer with a really lifelong experience of the sea traditions and a former editor of the famous and respected Wooden Boat magazine plus the author of the 100 Boat Designs Reviewed book - these days, he is the editor of Maine Boats. One of the most important advantages of this publication is that all construction bugs have been cleared out of the boat designs  by the author.

The book includes so many construction plans and detailed drawings, diagrams and materials lists, clear photographs and useful step-by-step instructions. The book contains not only the technical information on the boats but also so many interesting ideas that will definitely be appreciated by the boatbuilding and bat design enthusiasts. It will be equally useful to the boat builder and carpenter.

Even the boat modelers will benefit from having a look in this work. It is a very nice source for beginners and we may consider this publication maybe the best one to start with. Not too much of theory and not full of complicated difficult-to-follow instructions. Quite simple and motivating. The name is pretty self-explanatory - take this book and start. You will not be disappointed with the result.

An excellent and useful publication prepared by the expert in boatbuilding to serve as a practical tool for any students of yacht design and any other people with the interest in yachtbuilding and boatbuilding, who will definitely find this volume a very enjoyable and interesting reading. It will provide all necessary theoretical and practical information for those who wish to learn more about yacht design and construction.

The publication covers all important aspects of yacht design and gives numerous valuable suggestions and even some useful trade-related tricks. The author of the volume explains the very basics of the yacht design to the readers and leads them through all stages of designing yachts, step-by-step. Moreover, one of the chapters of the book is solely dedicated to the twenty-one yacht design principles worked out by the author. Some necessary supplementary information like conversion tables has also been included in the volume. The book starts with the chapters covering the design and planning of hulls, touching the math and followed by stability and propulsion matters.

The materials that yachts are constructed of have also been touched, together with the engine requirements, outfitting and various deck arrangements... We would definitely recommend this book due to the amount of information it contains and also due to the very easy-to-understand manner subject information has been presented.

This book is devoted to sailing and provides readers with the information and necessary professional guidance to the sails and sail technology also covering the performance matters. The content is presented in a very concise way though it is quite comprehensive and the text part is supplemented by the numerous personal anecdotes and informative photo making the learning process not only easy but sometimes even funny.

The book provides a definitive look at the recent technical advances in sailcloth and hardware, engineering aspects, sail trim etc. it also contains several case studies illustrating which of the fibers, sails and fabrics would better suit different sailing applications. The volume will be very interesting to the sailors who will find it practical and giving all information they require to apply to their yachts and boats.

This book is arranged in fifteen chapters covering all important topics. Some additional information is there in the appendices. The Basic Boat Diagram and Glossary of terms used in sailing has also been included for reference. The book is considered a best choice for the newcomers o sailing but will also be useful to the experienced sailors.

The book is recommended to the people who like sailing yachts and want to know how they are designed. The readers who have already tried this book liked how the authors explained the different design choices using numerous general and specific examples. It is a really outstanding volume for the persons willing to get a deep practical understanding of the contemporary yacht design.

The broad experience of the author has allowed him to prepare an excellent book featuring concise and clear text covering all important aspects. The volume has been organized in quite interesting way and includes several complementary chapters dealing with the design principles. This book shall be treated as the best guide for the beginner yacht designers. There are numerous line drawings that will be appreciated by the newcomers to the world of yacht design who will refer to subject drawings for identification of the shapes making fast performance of the yachts.

The volume will provide all technical information that commonly has to be researched in the books on naval architecture. The interesting prose by Bob Perry will make the learning process much easier and makes this book vital for the designers.

The authors of this yacht design textbook have managed to provide a remarkable coverage of all related aspects with sufficient technical principles and concepts, and with math to allow the future yacht designers to duly understand the fundamentals. Apart from the theoretical information, the text of the volume is supplemented by numerous worked examples included to demonstrate how the calculations associated with the design shall be performed.

The content of the book is highly readable and comprehensive. There is a list of reference sources included leading to the further publications. The authors have addressed virtually all design related matters from the very basics to the structural details. The volume is strongly recommended to all people having the interest in the yacht design basics. It will best suit newcomers to the yacht design.

Written by a duet of recognized experts in yacht design, the publication has been found by the readers to be very sound and up-to-date, serving as a classic manual for yacht designers covering every single aspect. Among the matters addressed in the book are design considerations and methodology applied, rig design and calculations, hull, keel, rig and rudder design, applicable ISO standards, design evaluation and many other important topics.

This is just the official booklet of the Fifteenth Chesapeake Sailing Yacht Symposium. The document was released back in 2001 with the intention of the compilers to combine the materials presented in the course of the Symposium by Stephan Harries, Karsten Hochkirch and Claus Abt from Berlin Technical University.

Today, the geometric modeling applied to the yacht design is commonly related to hydrodynamic performance of the hull shape of the yacht taken together with the appendages. The traditional shape design is quite expensive and time consuming, and in this paper a complementing approach to the design will be discussed.

It is called hydrodynamic modeling as it combines the geometric modeling with hydrodynamic analysis in the design process... This document will be of interest to the people engaged in the design of the yachts and wishing to be updated with all happenings in the field. Very small but concise and informative publication.

In this book the author tells us the biography of a truly remarkable boat and the story of the man who built this boat. It is much more than just a tale of technology - we would rather consider this publication a profile of imagination and hubris of a legendary enterpreneur. The man to whom this book is dedicated, has a dream and that dream was not to get very rich or acquire power.

Tom Perkins was one of the creators of the world famous Silicon Valley and, obviously, already possessed all of that wealth, being a one of the most successful venture capitalists. As he hit his seventies, this man decided to build the larges, highest-tech, fastest and, by the way, riskiest sailboat ever - and called it the perfect yacht. The yacht would be as long as the soccer field, about 42 feet wide, have three masts each having a height of a twenty-storied building... The Maltese Falcon, the world's biggest privately-owned sailing ship.

This book is a really exhilarating account of how this yacht was created. It is indeed revealing and very engaging. The ones who read it will for sure do that with a great deal of interest and will not get disappointed. This eminent person and his boat have been examined in this publication with precision and insight.

This nice guidance for the boat builders with a quite self-explanatory title was compiled and released by the editors team of the world famous Popular Mechanics Magazine who have spent so much of their time and efforts trying to choose the boats to be included in those twenty-three.

The boats that can be constructed according to the plans, sketches and drawings provided in the present publication, are currently in operation in various parts of the United States. The building instructions are given in a very easily understandable way. This book will definitely suit both beginner and experienced boatbuilding enthusiasts; however, people who never dealt with the building of the boats before, would better familiarize themselves with the contents of the chapter nine called "Build Your Boat Right".

The editors of the book do believe that it will offer something to tempt all lovers of boatbuilding and boating. The readers just have to choose their favorite type - for example, sailboat, ice yacht, cabin cruiser, kayak etc. - and follow the clear, simple and perfectly illustrated instructions. Be sure that the kind of boat you would like to have is there in this book - find it and try to build - it is not that difficult.