Boatowner's Illustrated Handbook of Cruising Sails and Rigging
International Marine Publishing Co
Published on 16. October 2017
Book
Hardback
978-0-07-147395-8 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Rockport, ME
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-07-147395-8 (9780071473958)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Charlie Wing received his Ph.D. in oceanography from MIT, where he later worked as a research scientist. Since then his career has been explaining how things work--teaching physics at Bowdoin College, founding America's first two do-it-yourself house-building schools (the Shelter Institute and Cornerstone), hosting a PBS series on energy conservation, and writing a dozen top-selling books on home building, home maintenance, and remodeling. Wing lived aboard a cruising sailboat for six years, during which time he wrote the first edition of this book on a solar-powered Macintosh computer. He is the author of four other IM books.