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All This and Sailing Too An autobiography of Olin J. Stephens II, the leading desginer for Sparkman and Stephens
ELEMENTS OF MODERN SHIP CONSTRUCTION.By David J. House. Hardback, 297mm x 210mm, 368 pages.
This latest book by David House is an extensively illustrated work covering all aspects of ship design and construction.
Continual changes in the history of ship design have been brought about by the needs of trade, class and legislation. This current work provides a glossary of shipyard terminology and shipboard elements up to the 21st century.
The work shows detailed aspects of virtually all of today?s shipping arms, inclusive of: Container and Roll-On Roll-Off vessels, Liquid Cargo tankers, Bulk Carriers, Passenger and Dry Cargo ships. Shipboard measurements, together with operational features are well illustrated and detailed throughout.
The fore and aft, working ends of the vessel, with their anchors and mooring patterns are clearly depicted. Propeller detail and various rudder options being included alongside specific shipyard practice.
This work provides positive insight to the working areas of the ship, namely the cargo hatch areas, mooring decks, machinery and propulsion elements of the working vessel. The now more familiar use of aluminium, ceramics and composites are also illustrated in and around the arena of ship building.
Modern tankers, with double hulls, large car carriers with their multi-decks, and majestic passenger vessels have all been incorporated to give an extended overview of today's commercial shipping.
NZ$199.00 + Delivery
THE GAFF RIG HANDBOOK.By John Leather. Paperback, 210mm x 276mm, 240 pages, black and white photos and line drawings.
To many, a well built wooden craft of superior traditional design, with gaff rig, is a thing of unparalleled beauty.
From the humble waterman's boat to the sturdy North Sea fishing smacks to the great racing cutters of the late 19th century, gaff rig has proved effective, versatile, and greatly admired.
Over the past 40 years, this book has become internationally regarded as the definitive reference for anyone designing, building, rigging or sailing either an existing gaff rigged craft or a new one. It outlines the practical aspects of the rig, masts, spars, sails, running and standing rigging, and contrasts the developments of gaff rig in Britain, America, Scandinavia and France.
The Gaff Rig Handbook provides a fascinating insight into the design, history, techniques and developments of a rig which has evolved over centuries and which is strongly extending its use for pleasure sailing in the 21st century.
NZ$85.00 + Delivery
PRINCIPLES OF YACHT DESIGN.By Lars Larrson & Rolf E Eliasson. Hardback, 202mm x 272mm, 350 pages.
This book has now established itself as the standard book on the subject for practising designers, naval architecture students, discerning boat owners and the boatbuilding industry as a whole. Now revised and expanded for the third edition, it examines every aspect of the process of yacht and powerboat design.
The authors have used a newly designed 40 foot performance cruiser to demonstrate the practical application of yacht design theory. Beginning with the yacht's specifications, the authors examine:
The authors concluded by examining practical matters such as the layout of the cockpit, deck and cabin, and provide a complete weight calculation for the boat.
Illustrated with many explanatory diagrams, the authors have succeeded in making this complex subject remarkably clear and accessible for professionals and amateurs alike.
NZ$130.00 + Delivery
AERODYNAMICS OF WINGS AND BODIES. By Holt Ashley and Marten Landahl. Paperback, 135mm x 215mm, 279 pages. Monochrome drawings.
After a short review of fluid mechanics, the authors offer a fairly extensive treatment of constant-density inviscid flow. A chapter deals with singular perturbation problems, presenting an extremely useful technique not to be found in most texts. Subsequent chapters describe:
NZ$40.00 + delivery.
SHIP STABILITY, for Masters and Mates, 6th Edition.By C.B.Barrass and D.R. Derrett, Paperback, 166mm x 240mm, 533 pages, monochrome diagrams.
Understanding ship stability - the ability of a ship to return to an initial state after disturbing forces and moments - is critical for all maritime students and professionals studying for a deck or engineering certificate of competency, or seeking promotion to a higher rank within the Merchant Marine or Navy.
The sixth edition of this classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of ship stability and ship strength, squat, interaction and trim, materials stresses and forces. The book also has a generous provision of worked examples and exercises questions to assist masters, mates and engineering officers with written and oral examinations.
Revised throughout with twelve new chapters:
- Floodable and permissible length curves
- Icing allowances - effects on trim and stability
- Tabular and assigned freeboard values
- load lines and freeboard marks
- Effects of side winds on stability - wind levers and wind moments
- Air draft considerations
- Synchronous rolling and parametric rolling of ships - associated dangers
- Recent SQA/MCA examination questions
- Updated glossary of ship terms and nomenclature
NZ$136.00 + delivery.
ELEMENTS OF YACHT DESIGN, the Original Edition of the Classic Book on Yacht DesignBy Norman L. Skene. Pbk, 155mm x 235mm, 254 pages, monochrome photographs, drawings and plans.
Skene's Elements of Yacht Design is one of the most famous yacht design books ever written. First published in 1904, Skene did several revisions, the last of which was published in 1938 - this is the edition reproduced here in its original form. In 1962 the book was completely revised by Francis S. Kinney. A last version was published in 1973 and it has long been out of print.
Whilst this reprint may be looked on as a piece of history, to do so is to miss the main value of the book. The hydrostatic and aerodynamic principles described in this book in detail with tables and graphs, are basic principles and therefore timeless. They are as immutable in application as the method of working out a celestial position line. These sailing ship design elements are very well and concisely described; the book is warmly recommended to anyone interested in the tabular and quantitative information needed for yacht design. Hence presumably its popularity nearly 100 years ago!
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THE ELEMENTS OF BOAT STRENGTH, for Builders, Designers and Owners.By Dave Gurr. Hbk, 190mm x 240mm, 368 pages, monochrome photographs, drawings and plans.
The author is an acclaimed technical author and naval architect; he has created this unique system of easy-to-use scantling rules and rules-of-thumb for calculating the necessary dimensions, or scantlings, of hulls, decks and other boat parts, whether built of fibreglass, wood, wood-epoxy composite, steel or aluminium.
In addition to the rules themselves this book offers their context: and in depth, plain-English descriptions of boatbuilding materials, methods and practices that will guide the user through all aspects of boat construction.
This book has all of the formulas, tables, illustrations and charts needed to judge how heavy each piece of the boat needs to be to last long and voyage safely.
NZ$89.00 + delivery.
HOW TO DESIGN A BOAT, Third Edition.By John Teal. Paperback, 138mm x 217mm, 137 pages, monochrome drawings.
This straightforward guide is designed to take the novice step-by-step through the stages of designing both power and sailing boats, explaining the reasons behind the procedures and using typical lines plans and working drawings to help understanding.
Since it was published, How to Design A Boat has proved itself something of a bestseller.
NZ$35.00 + Delivery.
UNDERSTANDING BOAT DESIGN, 4th Edition.By Ted Brewer. Pbk, 185mm x 235mm, 147 pages, monochrome photographs, drawings and plans.
This book has long been the recognised easy-reading guide to the principles of boat design, and provides the answers to a score of questions about hull shape, rig design, keel configurations, engines, and safety aspects in stability. Used and recommended by the national boat-building school, it has eased tens of thousands of readers worldwide into the complex world of yacht design. It is an ideal introduction for backyard builders, students of boat design, someone looking to buy their first boat, or merely the armchair enthusiast.
NZ$38.00 + Delivery.
BOATS WITH AN OPEN MIND.By Philip C. Bolger, Paperback, 230mm x 185mm, 420 pages, monochrome drawings and plans.
The business of production boatbuilding operates within extraordinarily narrow confines. Go to a boatshow, and you are impressed by how much alike the boats look. Designs are distinguished not by unique attributes but by degree - how fast they supposedly go, how many people they sleep, the quality of craftsmanship, how much they cost. This is assuredly not because a tidal creek birdwatcher wants the same kind of boat as an ocean cruiser. Rather, it's due to the requirements of mass production. It wasn't always so; back before fibreglass made it possible to build multiple hulls from one mold, each boat was an individual creation and could be shaped to satisfy any combination of requirements, no matter how whimsical.
Here are 75 novel and wonderful boats - some strange, some beautiful, all of them paragons of Philip Bolger's form-follows-function design philosophy. A planing microtrawler; a glass-galleried, beachable birdwatching boat; a fully enclosed ocean-cruising rowboat; cruising sailboats that take the ground at low tide; power, sail, and rowing boats from 6 to 95 feet - these are boats as only Bolger's unfettered imagination does them.
This is the first collection of Bolger's work in almost 15 years. It is long, long overdue.
NZ$95.00 + Delivery.
STANTON'S AMERICAN STEAM VESSELS.By Samuel Ward Stanton. Pbk, 238mm x 310mm, monochrome drawings and prints.
Maritime historians and seafaring enthusiasts will treasure this exciting tribute to the first 88 years of American steam vessels. Originally published in 1895, the comprehensive guide includes accurate illustrations and descriptions of all types of American steamships - from Robert Fulton's Clermont, the world's first successful steamboat, to the transatlantic passenger steamship St. Louis, built in 1895.
Stanton's expert renderings - based on early prints, lithographs, drawings and plans, and other reliable sources - depict more than 250 ships, including coastal steamships; riverboats of the East, West, and South; and the steamers of the Great Lakes.
Varying greatly in appearance and construction according to locality, the distinctive ships include, among others, the Alabama, Baltimore, Belle Memphis, Bremen, City of Chicago, Daniel Webster, Iron Queen, Jamestown, Kearsarge, Louisiana, Maine, Milwaukee, Monitor, Philadelphia, Robert E. Lee, Savannah, Silver Star, Soo City, Thomas Jefferson, and the Virginia.
A full-length view of almost every vessel is accompanied by a small illustration of the same ship as well as text describing the length of the hull, type of engine and boiler, and size of paddle wheels or propellers. Two hundred sixty-eight vessels are documented.
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UNDERSTANDING YACHT DESIGN
By Ian Nicolson. Pbk, 170mm x 240mm, 126 pages, monochrome drawings.
Did you know that a boat:
This book is for novice designers who want to use pencil and paper or Computer Aided Design. Most of the maths has been replaced by simple rules of thumb. It will be equally useful to boat owners who want to modify the hull, rig, deck layout or accommodation. It will be invaluable to boat buyers who want to answer questions like: How will she sail? How much will she cost? How easy is it to change things? How can I reduce or increase sail area without upsetting the balance?
PETE CULLER ON WOODEN BOATS.
Edited By John Burke. Pbk, 215mm x 275mm, 386 pages, monochrome photographs and line drawings.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, R.D. "Pete" Culler was one of a triumvirate of small-boat authorities - along with John Gardener and Howard Chapelle - whose writings kept traditional wooden-boat design and building alive in America. Culler was also a superlative boat designer and builder in his own right. His designs are classic melds of elegance and utility, and his workmanship is akin to artistry.
Collected here is the best of Pete Culler, including the complete texts of his two classic books - Skiffs & Schooners and Boats, Oars and Rowing - along with articles from The Mariner's Catalogs and commentaries from Pete Culler's Boats: The Complete Design Catalog. A blend of clarity, good sense, insight, and wry humor. Culler's writing helped launch the wooden boat revival and inspired a generation of enthusiasts. He remains an unimpeachable authority on the design, building, and use of traditional small boats, and this collected wit and wisdom is a vital reference and a source of unending pleasure and fascination for builders and owners of small wooden boats.
YACHT DESING ACCORDING TO PERRY.
By Robert H. Perry. hardcover, 220mm x 282mm, 280 pages, monochrome photographs and line drawings.
Here is Bob's personal look at the benchmark yacht designs of his prolific 34-year career: how interactions with clients breathed life into the designs; good and bad trends in the way boats are built; the highs and lows of the boatbuilding industry; and above all and always, how he balances practical considerations with yacht design alchemy to create the many boats in his portfolio that are now accepted classics, including the Valiant 40, the Tayanas, Babas, Islanders, and a host of modern high-performance cruisers and cruiser-racers.
But that is only half of this book. Interspersed with these design stories are essays on the thorny cruxes of yacht design; hull forms and how to understand them; the cruising keel; the rudder; the rig; bow and stern shapes; and the aesthetics of yacht design, in which Bob illustrates key points with boats from his portfolio. With the stories of his designs illuminating how successful boats are conceived and produced, and with his essays on design offering insights into the art and science, this book is destined to become a classic.
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