A Boat of Your Own. A Guide to the Selection, Buying, Building, Maintenance, and Chartering of Yachts and Dinghies

Hardback. Foxing to end inside covers and edge. Wear and tear to D/J. Price clipped to D/J. Many books have been published on the art and craft of sailing and cruising, but few have dealt entirely with the necessary preliminaries for the guidance of would-be owners. This book fills that need, and takes the reader step by steo through the mysteries of selecting a suitable craft, of ensuring that she will be a sound investment and not a white elephant, of equipping and maintaining her. It takes hin, in fact, right up to the time when the mooring is at last slipped, the helm is put hard over, the sails fill and his own yacht slips eagerly away to the open waters of his choice. In addition, the author unravels the mysteries of the workings of yacht surveyors and brokers, of yards and clubs, of insurance and registration. And for those who find they cannot afford the time for what is now the sport of Everyman, he deals fully with the processes of hiring and chartering a craft which, for a few weeks at least, is a boat of one's own. Illustrated. 148 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…