The joy of sailing for the do-it-yourself shipbuilder. Feel the power of a motorless waterborne machine that can make better than 43 knots in a 15-knot wind. Read this book and emulate the writer, Bernard Smith, as he moves design art toward the ultimate "sailing" machine. A beautiful book that will give you years of contemplative pleasure
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Visions of an unfettered mind,
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This review is from: Sailloons and Fliptackers: The Limits to High-Speed Sailing (Library of Flight Series) (Hardcover)
Bernard Smith is a genius. This book, and anything else you can find by him, are required reading if you're interested in proas, high speed sailing, or just a very smart engineer's logical look at how to move fast on water powered by the wind. Starting with models, he works his way up to full sized speed sailing designs. One very nice thing is that Mr Smith was never a professional boat designer, so he tells the truth about what worked, what didn't, and what broke. Boats like Sailrocket owe everything to him, as they've said themselves; if you think SR is cool, read this and you'll understand better where it came from. I've read my copy about fifteen times, and will again. Highly recommended.
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This review is from: Sailloons and Fliptackers: The Limits to High-Speed Sailing (Library of Flight Series) (Hardcover)
This book is interesting but really doesn't give much usable information for the boat builder. There is some talk about theory but nothing of any help to someone who might want to build any boats.
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That reflection, drawn from my book The 40-Knot Sailboat, expresses my fascination with sailing as truly today as when it was written in 1963. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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That reflection, drawn from my book The 40-Knot Sailboat, expresses my fascination with sailing as truly today as when it was written in 1963. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
windward edge, dynamic lift, changing tack, sail area New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Aero-Hydrodynamics of Sailing by Czeslaw A. Marchaj in Back Matter
- Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson in Back Matter
- Canoes of Oceania (Special publications - Bernice P. Bishop Museum ; 27-29) by Alfred C. Haddon in Back Matter
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