Optimize Your Cruising Sailboat : 101 Ways to Make Your Sailboat Better - Softcover

Roberts, John

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9780071419512: Optimize Your Cruising Sailboat : 101 Ways to Make Your Sailboat Better

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ISBN 10: 0071419519 ISBN 13: 9780071419512

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2003

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Comparable to a homeowner's remodeling guide, Optimize Your Cruising Sailboat offers scores of ideas to make a cruising sailboat faster, more comfortable, more seaworthy, easier to handle, and better looking. With more than 175 detailed illustrations and technical drawings, it walks readers through projects for:

Improving comfort, handling, seaworthiness, performance, and dockside appeal
Adding such attractive features as a deck wash down system, tandem headsails, a pass-through porthole between galley and cockpit, and many more

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From the Back Cover:

100 ways to transform the sailboat you settled for into the one you dream about!

Comfort versus performance, seaworthiness versus accomodations, ease of sailing versus appearance--let's face it, you just can't have it all. Or can you? In Optimize Your Cruising Sailboat, experienced cruising sailor and author John Roberts draws upon his extensive research among sailmakers, riggers, boat designers, boatbuilders, and, of course, other sailors to describe methods for improving virtually every aspect of your sailing experience.

Optimize Your Cruising Sailboat features hundreds of crystal-clear illustrations along with step-by-step instructions on how to complete more than 100 boat improvement projects ranging from quick, inexpensive improvements, like creating a pass-through porthole between galley and cockpit, to more elaborate projects, such as installing a backup headstay. Optimize Your Cruising Sailboat is the total-solutions guide for cruising sailboat owners.

About the Author:

John Roberts has been sailing and writing about sailing for more than two decades. He finished his 36-foot cruising sailboat, Sea Sparrow, from a bare hull and has cruised her more than 25,000 miles. His articles have appeared in SAIL, Yachting, and Sailing World. His other books include Fiberglass Boats: Construction, Repair, and Maintenance, Choosing Your Boat, and Why Didn't I Think of That?.

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