All About Powerboats: Understanding Design and Performance |
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What’s the difference between a deep-vee hull and a modified vee? A planing hull and a displacement hull? Find out the answer to these and scores of other frequently asked questions in All About Powerboats. Writing for any boater seeking a better understanding of modern powerboat design and handling, author Roger Marshall provides a well-illustrated, clear introduction to small powerboats (18 to 30 feet long) from the perspective of use. His practical advice on hull shape, engines, construction methods, steering systems, comfort, and safety gives today’s boaters a thorough grounding in powerboat selection, use, and lore.
All About Powerboats: Understanding Design and Performance
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Heart of Glass |
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Nine out of ten sailors today own sturdy, often beautiful, fiberglass craft. Fiberglass brought boating to the non-rich, but the history of that revolution has never been told. Daniel Spurr rectifies this omission with his affectionate account of the fiberglass boat, from its earliest incarnation in World War II to the present. Spurr profiles landmark designs that set the standards in the used-boat market and introduces the vivid personalities who invented the world of boating we know today.
Heart of Glass
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How to Read a Nautical Chart |
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A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL The best handbook on chart usage, from one of the most trusted names in boating In 2000, the U.S. government ceased publication of 'Chart No. 1, the invaluable little book that generations of mariners have consulted to make sense of the complex system of signs, symbols, and graphic elements used in nautical charts. Now 'Chart No. 1 is not just reborn but expanded and improved in 'How to Read a Nautical Chart. The demand for a book like this has never been greater. Arranged and edited by Nigel Calder, one of today's most respected boating authors--and containing four-color illustrations throughout--'How to Read a Nautical Chart presents a number of original features that help readers make optimum use of the data found in 'Chart No. 1, including a more intuitive format, crucial background information, international chart symbol equivalents, electronic chart symbology, and thorough explanations of the practical aspects of nautical chart reading.
How to Read a Nautical Chart
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Once Is Enough |
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The Sailor's Classics library introduces a new generation of readers to the best books ever written about small boats under sail When the 46-foot 'Tzu Hang sailed from Australia into the vast Southern Ocean in December 1956, her crew of three couldn't know what terror awaited them.
Once Is Enough
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Sea Kayaking Illustrated |
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For some learners a picture is worth a thousand words--and this lavishly illustrated volume proves the rule. The expert advice and lively illustrations combine to offer serious how-to instruction in an entertaining fashion to sea kayakers of all levels. Developed by an ACA-certified instructor over years of paddling and education, this complete program provides a visual tour of all that sea kayaking can offer, including ingenious tips on advanced paddling techniques, navigation and safety, and more.
Sea Kayaking Illustrated
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Seaworthy Offshore Sailboat: A Guide to Essential Features, Handling, and Gear |
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'An invaluable resource. [Vigor's] practical wisdom gives you the know-how and confidence to prepare your boat for the sea.'--Cruising World. Here is the book that answer the sailor's fundamental question--'Can my boat take me offshore safely?'--then shows how to make it happen.
Seaworthy Offshore Sailboat: A Guide to Essential Features, Handling, and Gear
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Ship Modeling from Scratch: Tips and Techniques for Building Without Kits |
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Here is the first complete, step-by-step course in building model ships from scratch--everything from schooners and clipper ships to modern oceangoing freighters and steel warships. Covers choosing the right subject, building from plans, drawing scaled plans from photographs, buying tools and materials, building half models, planked hulls, lapstrake hulls, plank-on-frame, plank-on-bulkhead, lift models, modern ships, ancient ships, masting and rigging, sailmaking and flags.
Ship Modeling from Scratch: Tips and Techniques for Building Without Kits
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The Strip-Built Sea Kayak: Three Rugged, Beautiful Boats You Can Build |
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Although books on strip building canoes abound, this is among the first to adapt the technique to crafting attractive, functional kayaks. Using high-quality, computer-generated illustrations and photographs to explain key techniques, the book provides complete plans and measurements for three different kayaks: 1) A simple solo craft for beginners, 2) A high-performance solo kayak for intermediate paddlers, and 3) A tandem design for two paddlers. With its easy-to-follow guidance and instructions, The Strip-Built Sea Kayak makes top-notch kayaks accessible to budget-minded paddlers.
The Strip-Built Sea Kayak: Three Rugged, Beautiful Boats You Can Build
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