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GLEN-L BOOK OF BOAT DESIGNS.
By Glen-L Marine Designs. Paperback, 212mm x 276mm, 282 pages, monochrome drawings and photos .
If you have ever dreamed of building a boat, this is the book for you. Glen-L offers the largest selection of plans for building your ideal boat. Whether canoe or kayak, sailboat or speedboat, skiboat or classic runabout, cabin cruiser or yacht, Glen-L's full size pattern system and accessory kits put your dream within reach. Join the thousands who have successfully built their own boat using plans from the most respected name in boat designs for the amateur builder since 1953.
Glen-L makes it easy with instructions and full size patterns.
There are over 300 different designs shown on these pages, from 5' to 55', for a variety of construction materials. You're sure to find a plan to suit your needs.
NZ $55.00 + delivery.
LOFTING.By Allan H. Vaitses. Pbk, 250mm x 175mm, 150 pages, monochrome drawings .
Enlarging a boat's plans to full size, is an essential step in the process of building a boat. It is also a step that confounds many boatbuilders, amateurs and professionals alike. In this volume, veteran boatbuilder Allan Vaitses provides a clear explanation of the process.
Mr Vaitses approaches lofting on a practical level. Through his detailed chapters explaining the lofting of a 12-foot skiff, L. Francis Herreshoff's Araminta, and a Raymond Hunt-designed powerboat, the author describes the techniques and practices necessary to lof a flat-bottomed boat, a round-bottomed boat with a keel, and a V-bottomed boat.
As he goes along, Mr Vaitses provides clear drawings to illustrate his points. These drawings are an invaluable part of the book.
NZ $56.00 + delivery.
DESIGNS TO INSPIRE, From the RUDDER 1897-1942 By Anne and Maynard Bray. Pbk, 215mm x 280mm, 185 pages, monochrome drawings.
Here is a treasure trove of classic vessel designs, long dormant in almost 50 years worth of back issues of The Rudder magazine. In this book. you will find equal numbers of drawings for both sail and power boats of a wide variety of types-catboats, sloops, yawls, ketches, and motorsailers, launches, runabouts, cruisers, and motoryachts. All of the plans shown here are fithfully reproduced from the The Rudders monthly design profiles, and they represent the work of such noted naval architects as John Alden, Charles Mower, B.B. Crowninshield, William Hand, Sparkman & Stephens, Phil Rhodes, Sam Crocker, E.A. Boardman, and L Francis Herreshoff-amoung others.
NZ$70.00 + Delivery.
GERMAN FRERS - A PASSION FOR DESIGN.By Barry Pickthall. Hbk, 245mm x 310mm, 198 pages, full colour and monochrome photographs, lines plans and drawings.
A Passion for Design is probably one of the few standard reference, coffee-table style design books. It lives in the design rather than our coffeetable pages because of the amount of technical history available for some of the designs. For example the America's Cup challenger Il Moro 5 is described from inception, through tank testing and all technical design phases, including a full set of hull lines on a fold-out section just under one metre long! The whole process is illustrated with full colour photographs.
The theme of the book is the story of the German Frers Agentine design dynasty, and it has been produced unashamedly to fuel the desire to own - or to dream of owning - a beautiful boat. The yacht design heritage spans three generations of the name German whose designs have generated more than 10,000 boats, from dinghies to day-sailors; distinctive cruisers and racers, to power boats and superyachts.
During the origins of the yard in the 1950's and 1960's good yacht design as practiced by the master - German Frers senior - was largely intuitive. Today those traditional skills remain and are mixed with the precise demands of structural analysis, aerodynamics and hi-tech engineering.
This book is a fulsome and attractive technical summary of vessels from the yard, accompanied with many excellent contemporary photographs and lines and rigging plans. Included are America's Cup yachts and many other famous vessels.
Was NZ$202.00 + delivery
Now NZ$180.00 + delivery.
JOEL WHITE, Boatbuilder, Designer, Sailor.
By Bill Mayher and Maynard Bray, photographs by Benjamin Mendlowitz. Hbk, 285mm x 285mm, 227 pages, full colour photographs and drawings.
This book would sit equally well on our coffeetable pages as it does in Boat and Yacht Design. It is a beautiful book with stunning photographs and drawings. The binding is heavy with a very attractive dustcover. What decided us as to placement here is that the content includes what are in effect full study plans and abstracted building information for most of the designs. There is a very wide range of vessel types, from sailing dinghies to keelers, including several power launches.
In planning this book the three authors decided on a primary goal of giving readers access to the plans that Joel White drew, pictures of the boats that he built and, as something of a bonus, provide his unpublished writing about sailing. This will convey to the reader that his expertise stems from a mix of capabilities in design, building and operating yachts and launches, combined with an academic talent evidenced by his flare for expressing his passion on paper.
This book is both a technical element in the recent history of classic pleasure craft design and construction, and a great delight to keep in the boating library.
NZ$145.00 + delivery.
PRELIMINARY DESIGN OF BOATS AND SHIPS, A Veteran Desginer's Approach to Conceptual Vessel Design for the Layman and the Beginning Professional.By Cyrus Hamlin, N.A. Hbk, 180mm x 260mm, 294 pages, monochrome drawings.
This book will help people who are not boat designers to bring the vessel of their dreams into reality. It is written by an experienced naval architect to prepare intelligent amateurs for creating conceptual designs ready for a qualified naval architect's finishing touches. Most naval architecture books deal with a single type of vessel whereas this volume covers a wide variety of watercraft. It can be equally useful if the reader is envisaging a modest cruising yacht or a sixty-foot commercial fishing boat.
The book provides all the essential information, including a discussion of stability and trim. Mathematical applications are demystified in as far as possible.
NZ$115.00 + delivery.
BOAT DESIGN - CLASSIC AND NEW MOTORBOATS.By Paolo Tumminelli. Flexiback, 130mm x 190mm, 399 pages, monochrome and colour photos and prints.
100 years of evolution prove it: motorboats are more than just nice toys. based on more than 300 original images drawn from archives and sales broschures, this book offers a unique insight at motorboat design and lifestyle from the early racers to classic mahagony runabouts, from fast offshores to the newest motoryachts. With a biographical overview of the diverse personalities behind the scenes of motor boating.
NZ$60.00 + Delivery
WORTHY OF THE SEA.By Maynard Bray & Tom Jackson. Hardcover, 285mm x 245mm, 302 pages, monochrome photos and line drawings.
Knud Aage Nielsen may not be as well known as many of his contemporaries in twentieth-century yacht design - but he should be. He devoted his life to boat design and construction, beginning with his youth in Denmark and continuing first with illustrious design firms and later on his own.
In 1925 Nielsen immigrated to the United States to work with the John G. Alden Company in Boston, Massachusetts. Among the stellar young designers there were Nielsen's great friends Murray Peterson and Fenwick Williams, with whom he worked during the early 1930s. In 1936 he became the sole designer in the Boston office of Sparkman & Stephens, Inc. He struck out on his own at last after World War II with a one-man design practice in Boston. An extraordinary number of his clients returned time and again for his services.
From the beginning, his plans were known for remarkable attention to form and detail. His insistence on excellent construction was legendary. His plans - now in the collections of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts - were held in the highest esteem by boatbuilders and by his fellow designers, Olin Stephens amongst them.
His seaworthy double-ended cruising yachts, inspired by distinctively Danish types, are widely admired, but his work ranged from the largest Alden schooners to small craft to keel-centerboard raceboats. many of these are still active today, especially in New England. Nielsen designs remain highly prized and meticulously cared for by their owners.
NZ$150.00 + Delivery
AERO-HYDRODYNAMICS AND THE PERFORMANCE OF SAILING YACHTS.By Fabio Fossati. Paperback, 192mm x 253mm, 354 pages, full colour & monochrome photos,line drawings and illustrations.
Drawing on state-of-the-art performance testing techniques in wind tunnels and towing tanks, it provides invaluable new insights into how and why a sailing yacht behaves as it does. Fabio Fossati, a world expert in the field, has conducted years of research in wind tunnels, including work for several America's Cup campaigns, and his results represent the latest knowledge on the subject.
This book presents a systematic analysis of the basic factors governing the behavior of a yacht under sail. Using simple mathematics and illustrating his findings with tables, graphs and helpful colour photographs, Fossati examines the principles of fluid dynamics applied to sailing yachts, and the main aerodynamics and hydrodynamic aspects that determine their behaviour under way.
From the latest research in aerodynamics and hydrodynamics right through to performance prediction, this book covers:
NZ$150.00 + Delivery
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