Expert critiques of 220 contemporary sailboats make SAILING DESIGNS a treasure of information for sailors. The expert is Robert Perry, technical editor of SAILING Magazine, yacht designer and acclaimed author of the magazines authoritative, frank, incisive and witty sailboat design reviews. In this collection of reviews of designs that include cruising and racing boats, daysailers, ocean passagemakers, monohulls and multihulls, Perry pulls no punches, telling whats right and wrong with a design and venturing a firm prediction of how each boat will perform in use on the water. Each review includes complete specifications and hull profile, sailplan, accommodation and deck plans, printed on oversized 10 by 13 inch pages. SAILING DESIGNS belongs in the library of anyone who plans to buy a sailboat or simply appreciates intelligent writing about the art and science of sailboats.
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".....Bob has written more than a thousand design reviews for Sailing.
I've edited many of them and read them all. And now, I think I'll read his latest reviews, collected here, again. They're worth it, his best ever, works that are substantial but also lively and spicy--- likt the big, toasty cabernet sauvignons Bob admires. YES, YOU CAN ADD WINE CONNOISSEUR TO HIS RESUME." [from the book of the back cover by Bill Schanen, Editor and Publisher, SAILING Magazine]
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I often get invitations to sail the boats I review, but typically the boat will be in Florida while I am in Seattle. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
family cruising boat, sheer spring, sail area, berth aft, fractional rig, handsome boat, family cruiser, wing keel, working jib, swim step, two keels, fin keel, crew weight, double berth, yacht design, sloop rig, aft lowers, quarter berth, shoal draft, hull form, hull lines, deck design, center cockpit, cruising boats, weather helm Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Auxiliary Yanmar, Island Packet, Beetle Cat, Auxiliary Volvo, Bruce Farr, New Zealand, Bristol Channel, Garry Hoyt, German Frers, Jim Taylor, Barry Carroll, Laser Cat, Puget Sound, Maine Cat, Santa Cruz, West Coast, Front Runner, Grand Soleil, United States, Westerly Marine, Alerion Express, Bob Johnson, Cape Cod, Cray Valley, Little Harbor New!
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I often get invitations to sail the boats I review, but typically the boat will be in Florida while I am in Seattle. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
family cruising boat, sheer spring, sail area, berth aft, fractional rig, handsome boat, family cruiser, wing keel, working jib, swim step, two keels, fin keel, crew weight, double berth, yacht design, sloop rig, aft lowers, quarter berth, shoal draft, hull form, hull lines, deck design, center cockpit, cruising boats, weather helm Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Auxiliary Yanmar, Island Packet, Beetle Cat, Auxiliary Volvo, Bruce Farr, New Zealand, Bristol Channel, Garry Hoyt, German Frers, Jim Taylor, Barry Carroll, Laser Cat, Puget Sound, Maine Cat, Santa Cruz, West Coast, Front Runner, Grand Soleil, United States, Westerly Marine, Alerion Express, Bob Johnson, Cape Cod, Cray Valley, Little Harbor New!
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- Small Boat Handling by Brown on page 41
- Boat Building by Howard Irving Chapelle on page 19
- Theory of Wing Sections: Including a Summary of Airfoil Data (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering) by Ira H. Abbott on page 149
- High Performance Sailing by Frank Bethwaite on page 21
- American Small Sailing Craft: Their Design, Development and Construction by Howard I. Chapelle on page 19
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- Sailors' Secrets by Mike Badham in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sailors' Secrets: Advice from the Masters by Mike Badham in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sailing Designs, Vol. 6 by Robert H. Perry in Front Matter
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