
How to Design a Boat
John Teale(Author)
Sheridan House (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published on 1. September 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-57409-157-1 (ISBN)
Description
Since it was first published, How to Design a Boat has proven itself a bestseller.
This book will take you step-by-step through the stages of designing both power and sailing boats, explaining the reasons behind the procedures and using sketches and reproductions of working drawings to facilitate learning.
This book will take you step-by-step through the stages of designing both power and sailing boats, explaining the reasons behind the procedures and using sketches and reproductions of working drawings to facilitate learning.
Reviews / Votes
There are, of course, only two kinds of boating people: those who want a 33 (10m) white plastic cruising-racing yacht and those who want a 33 (10m) white plastic planing powerboat. If you don t believe me, look at the mainstream boating magazines; they patently adhere to the credo that there are no other kinds of boat to which anyone could conceivably aspire. Which makes it particularly brave of the publisher to re-issue this little manual of a distant counter culture. As totemic in its way as Das Kapital or The Motorcycle Diaries, it was back in 1992 that it first gave voice to the radical notion that you might not want to own 33 (10m) of elongated bidet. But its author, the late John Teale, a designer best known for his multi-chine steel motorboats, went even further by suggesting you could actually design for yourself an individual non-bidet to suit your own needs and inclinations. Clearly the boating equivalent of bra burning. Coming back to the book now, with its engaging coursework of a 14 (4.4m) lug-rigged dinghy, a 21 (6.4m) flattie skiff, even a good old-fashioned displacement motor cruiser, I can only cry Viva la revolution! * WaterCraft * This is a step-by-step walk through a series of designs that grow in size and complexity as the reader progresses, we trust with pencil in hand, from chapter to chapter. The author addresses a variety of boat types, small and large, and his writing style is so infectious that the more avid reader is likely to pass from plans on the dining-room table to shavings on the living-room floor without realizing it. * Cruising World * "The wealth of knowledge and confidence imparted by this book to the beginning designer may even provide incentive for launching a new career in yacht design."--Journal of the American Sailing AssociationMore details
Edition
3rd Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham
United States
Publishing group
Rowman & Littlefield
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
17 Tables, unspecified; 73 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 219 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
263 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57409-157-1 (9781574091571)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
For over forty years, John Teale designed cruising yachts, fast powerboats, motor cruisers and commercial craft. Virtually all his designs were one-offs and were built all over the world.
Content
1. Preliminary Sketches and Calculations
2. Completing the Preliminary Designs
3. Making the Working Drawings
4. Motor Boat Design
5. Resistance, Sail Plans and Hull Balance
6. Constructional Considerations
7. Stability
8. Further Design Considerations
Glossary
Index
2. Completing the Preliminary Designs
3. Making the Working Drawings
4. Motor Boat Design
5. Resistance, Sail Plans and Hull Balance
6. Constructional Considerations
7. Stability
8. Further Design Considerations
Glossary
Index