This book presents the small boat designer and builder with a basic insight into the nature of fiberglass as a boatbuilding material, as well as a sound, yet simple, approach to analyzing fiberglass boat hull structures. A thorough review is given to the characteristics of fiberglass materials and laminate design properties. In addition, valuable data is presented on basic design principles such as selection of structural loads, safety factors, deflection and vibration limitation. The level of detail engineering analysis of fiberglass structures, tempered with a practical, uncomplicated approach. The book is well illustrated and includes numerous step-by-step design examples. Robert J. Scott is president of Gibbs & Cox.
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Good engineering design data source for fiberglass boats,
By Wood and Metal Worker (Great White North) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fiberglass Boat Design and Construction (Hardcover)
The primary audience for this book is a boat designer who has experience designing scantlings for wood, steel or aluminum boats. It assumes you have enough of a knowledge of solid mechanics to calculate stresses and deflections in reinforced panels. It gives design load data for different classes of boats, but omits some data, such as rigging loads on sailboats. Given that knowledge, with this book you can design a sound fiberglass boat.
I'll note that this is not a "how-to" type of cookbook. It's an engineering text. If you have the technical background, it's a great resource. It isn't useful, however, as a general introduction into boat design and construction. Update July 2008: The book is unavailable through Amazon, but is still available new for $25 at the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, SNAME.org
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This review is from: Fiberglass Boat Design and Construction (Hardcover)
I did not enjoy this book at all. The diagrams in the book were poorly explained and their were very few photographs. Furthermore, this book was not very specific in its methods. It merely provided an overview of what I was looking to learn.Unless you are looking for a very vague, bland and boring book, I would not recommend this one.
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