Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. Year 1962. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> There is something about boats which makes one feel they are living creatures- each as different from her sisters as human beings are from each other. The very fact that one refers to a boat as “she” shows that since time began men have loved their boats. What is it that gives a boat such personality? Is it a series of compromises that combine speed comfortable accommodations and seaworthiness in just the right proportion? Or is it more than the attainment of these functional qualities that certain thing that makes these qualities fall into harmony that most elusive thing called beauty? “Eureka! I have found it!” cried Archimedes about 2200 years ago. It is a happy moment indeed when the designer can utter these words himself. Science is an important aid in designing any kind of a yacht but the rudiments of naval architecture are not difficult to grasp and are set forth here in their most practical form. It is hoped that this book will be of definite use to yacht designers both amateur and professional alike. Since three quarters of the earth’s surface is covered by water the need for boats will always exist. That over eight million boats are registered in the United States alone shows the great wave of interest in boating which has caught the public’s fancy. (SP)