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The Finely Fitted Yacht: The Boat Improvement Manual, Volumes 1 and 2

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Mate's profusely illustrated volume will help you fit out your blue water cruiser to suit your needs. Interspersed with his unique humor are plans for hundreds of projects from major to mundane. If you are building or refitting a sailing yacht, you must read this essential reference. If you've purchased a finished boat this book will help you fix the armchair-sailor design flaws too often present in modern craft. You need this book!

Finely illustrated with nice drawings, the book is good both for amateur boatbuilders and professionals, and surely is based upon a long experience. Boats being narrow inside, space is to be exploited in the best way, while outer parts are to be fitted to resist to sea and sun. This book is really easy to understand and very useful even for wooden house buildes.

Typical Mate book but was written in the 1970s. Most of the book is about woodworking projects for a boat but it is all very dated.

The Finely Fitted Yacht: The Boat Improvement Manual, Volumes 1 and 2 My boat is a 1984 Hunter 34 and I purchased this book to provide me some ideas on how I could improve the boat's layout. This book is great to browse through during the winter and share with friends for discussion and project planning.

Too poor, nothing new, mostly unpractical, useless advices. Cannot improve any boat that way. Do-it-yourself for oldies, true rigor & tradition are elsewhere.
Sergio Dall'Omo
nautical senior editor
Il Gazzettino
Italy