Principles of Yacht Design, 3rd Edition

Create your desired yacht with help from this yacht-design bible

This handsome edition of Principles of Yacht Design--the accepted standard yacht-design reference for boat owners, designers, and builders--is updated throughout, particularly the calculations of hull and deck thicknesses, or scantlings. Its new two-color format makes it easier for you to use its many elegant illustrations.

Lars Larsson, a naval architect, is a professor of hydrodynamics at Chalmers University of Technology, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Rolf E. Eliasson, a yacht design/construction engineer specializing in boat structures, runs his own yacht design company.