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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Good engineering design data source for fiberglass boats
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...
Published on October 10, 2006 by Wood and Metal Worker
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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I payed money for this?
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.
Published on February 1, 2003
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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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
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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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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Fiberglass Boat Design and Construction by Robert J. Scott (Hardcover - April 1, 1996)
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