Dozens of detailed drawings plus delightful descriptions and reminiscences of the boats and the people who loved them, the text accompanying each design centers on the background of each boat rather than on a technical study. Each essay is as different as the boat it describes, sometimes explaining a detail of the building process, the origins of a design, the individuals involved, or the evolution of a yacht type.

Yacht Designs

Engineering & Transportation

Garden, William

Transportation

Intl Marine Pub

This significant sample of work from one of the world's great yacht designers contains 41 chapters and more than 50 of William Garden's distinctive, salty designs for vessels that range from a 14' dory-style dinghy to a 106' brigantine, to an imaginary steam yacht, to high-tech motorsailers and motor yachts over 100'. In between are cutters, sloops, schooners and ketches, most of them traditional types. Accompanying the photographs and design drawings are the author's distinctive, salty comments on each boat and its background. William Garden's design work, produced in what he calls a branch of Santa's Workshop for older boys, is a blend of charm and integrity -- and so is his writing.

Yacht Designs II

Travel

Mystic Seaport Museum Inc

You'll enjoy this? part story, part boatbuilding manual of a small, beetle-cat-like boat, from a legendary designer with probably more of his creations built than any other person. You'll find out not only how the boat is built, but also how the design came to be from someone with a (long!) lifetime of fooling around with boats. As told from Toad's Landing, on an island off British Columbia, it becomes quite apparent that whimsy and fun are not limited to young boys and girls. The first thing you may notice about Tom Cat is the handsome cuddy. The next thing to realize is she is constructed with a combination of the traditional-plank-on-frame (carvel) and modern-epoxy for the seams. The result is a rugged boat which doesn't require the swelling of planks, or the recaulking of seams in the years to come. If you are just too pure a traditionalist for epoxy, of course you can plank and caulk.

The Making of Tom Cat: A Fathom Wide, by Two-Plus Long, and Half a Fathom Deep

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Wooden Boat Publications

Tiller Publishing

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