How to Design a Boat - Softcover

John Teale

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0713662085 ISBN 13: 9780713662085

Publisher: A&C Black, 2002

Synopsis

How To Design a Boat - Third Edition

About this title

From the Back Cover

There is nothing magical or particularly brilliant about designing a boat, and you don't need to be an Einstein or a Leonardo da Vinci to sketch out the sort of craft that appeals to you. Indeed this first sketch that many potential owners will have made at some time is the most important part of a design. It needs only the bare bones to be fleshed out and some checks and balances to complete the design process. This may take a little time but it certainly isn't difficult. And the same processes apply for a dinghy as well as a cruising yacht.

John Teale takes the reader step-by-step through the stages of designing both power and sailing boats, while also explaining the reasons behind the process. Sketches and reproductions of working drawings are used throughout to help understanding so that by the end of the book even a first time designer's effort can be translated by a builder into a sensible and workmanlike reality.

Since it was first published, How to Design a Boat has proved itself a bestseller. The second edition simplifies several calculations and introduces new designs.

About the Author

John Teale has been a boat designer all his life beginning at Thorneycroft's shipyard, and then joining the RNLI design offices. His designs, which have been built all over the world, range from fast power boats and motor cruisers, through commercial craft such as passenger ferries and fishing boats, to cruising yachts.

Edition details

• Publisher: A&C Black
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0713662085
• ISBN 13: 9780713662085
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 160