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Author : Joop Van Schouten
Publisher : Olympic Marketing Corporation
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN : 0914814370
Introduces the tools, materials, and techniques used to make model ships in bottles, suggests different types of ships, and includes tips on creating a realistic looking background
Author : Joop van Schouten
Publisher : Brassey's
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Ship models
ISBN : 0333322169
Author : John Green
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1992-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486270114
Children will love coloring 8 vessels boldly outlined on translucent paper: Viking longship, Columbus' Santa Maria, Mayflower, Yankee clipper, Chinese junk, 3 more. Place near light source for stained glass effect.
Author : Daniel Spurr
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780071798921
The fascinating story of fiberglass boats and the mavericks who dreamed them. Nine out of ten sailors today own sturdy, often beautiful fiberglass craft. Fiberglass brought boating to the non-rich, but the history of that revolution has never been told. Daniel Spurr rectifies this omission with his highly readable and affectionate account of the fiberglass boat, from its earliest incarnation in World War II to the present day. In the early days, when shoestring genius was unfettered by industrial efficiency, there were boats with tailfins, boats baked in ovens, and boats designed to be dropped from planes. The voyage from those first ugly ducklings to the graceful boats of the 1990s makes a riveting adventure of triumph and ruin. Along the way, Spurr profiles landmark designs that now set the standards in the used-boat market, and he portrays the revolution in human terms, introducing us to the vivid personalities who invented--often in their garages and rarely at a profit--the world of boating we know today.
Author : Margaret E. Schotte
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781421429540
Hands-on science in the Age of Exploration. Winner of the John Lyman Book Award in Naval and Maritime Science and Technology by the North American Society for Oceanic History and the Leo Gershoy Prize by the American Historical Association Throughout the Age of Exploration, European maritime communities bent on colonial and commercial expansion embraced the complex mechanics of celestial navigation. They developed schools, textbooks, and instruments to teach the new mathematical techniques to sailors. As these experts debated the value of theory and practice, memory and mathematics, they created hybrid models that would have a lasting impact on applied science. In Sailing School, a richly illustrated comparative study of this transformative period, Margaret E. Schotte charts more than two hundred years of navigational history as she investigates how mariners solved the challenges of navigating beyond sight of land. She begins by outlining the influential sixteenth-century Iberian model for training and certifying nautical practitioners. She takes us into a Dutch bookshop stocked with maritime manuals and a French trigonometry lesson devoted to the idea that "navigation is nothing more than a right triangle." The story culminates at the close of the eighteenth century with a young British naval officer who managed to keep his damaged vessel afloat for two long months, thanks largely to lessons he learned as a keen student. This is the first study to trace the importance, for the navigator's art, of the world of print. Schotte interrogates a wide variety of archival records from six countries, including hundreds of published textbooks and never-before-studied manuscripts crafted by practitioners themselves. Ultimately, Sailing School helps us to rethink the relationship among maritime history, the Scientific Revolution, and the rise of print culture during a period of unparalleled innovation and global expansion.
Author : Matthew P. Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Photography of sailing ships
ISBN : 188983372X
For forty years after the turn of last century, Willard Jackson trolled the waters off Marblehead, Massachusetts, in a custom motor launch carrying a wooden camera and a box of glass-plate negatives. His quarry? Any vessel that made its way into and out of that mecca of American sailing. Over a century later, the archive of several thousand pictures he collected stands as a one-of-a-kind record of the early development of the American yacht. Matthew Murphy, editor of WoodenBoat magazine, uses Jackson's remarkable work to trace the history of the pleasure sailboat. Each of 75 sharp, breathtaking images is accompanied by a 300-word caption.
Author : William G. Seifert,Daniel Spurr
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780071705929
In a book that is sure to become a classic, internationally respected boatbuilder, yacht manager, and delivery skipper Bill Seifert shares his hard-won solutions to a host of boat design, construction, and equipment issues and seamanship dilemmas. Unlike other books on the subject, Offshore Sailing doesn’t just tell readers what to do for safe and comfortable passage making; it shows them how to do it with clear, step-by-step instructions and nearly 200 detailed drawings and photographs.
Author : John Kimball
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781420073775
Breaking down the complicated concepts of speed, acceleration, torque, fluid mechanics, and surface physics, Physics of Sailing provides a lively, easily accessible introduction to the basic science underlying the sport of sailing. It illustrates the many ways physics can be used to understand the principles of sailboat propulsion and how a scienti
Author : Philip Marsden
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781783783014
In an old wooden sloop, Philip Marsden plots a course north from his home in Cornwall. He is sailing for the Summer Isles, a small archipelago near the top of Scotland that holds for him a deep and personal significance. On the way, he must navigate the west coast of Ireland and the Inner Hebrides. Bearing the full force of the Atlantic, it is a seaboard which is also a mythical frontier, a place as rich in story as anywhere on earth. Through the people he meets and the tales he uncovers, Marsden builds up a haunting picture of these shores - of imaginary islands and the Celtic otherworld, of the ageless draw of the west, of the life of the sea and perennial loss - and the redemptive power of the imagination. Exhilarating and poignant, Marsden's prose has been widely praised. Bringing together themes he has been pursuing for many years, The Summer Isles is an unforgettable account of the search for actual places, invented places, and those places in between that shape the lives of individuals and entire nations.
Author : E. Knight
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781447487371
Originally published London 1931, this is a well illustrated book that will prove invaluable to the class of yachtsmen for whom it is intended, with much information that will still be found practical and relevant to the modern reader. Contents include: The Selection of a Boat; The Effect of the Wind on a Boat; Splices, Knots, and Tackles; The Small Open Sailing Boat; Open Sailing Boats with Boom-Sails, and Half Decked Boat; Decked Boats; Seamanship; Open Boat Sailing; The Cruising Yacht; The Art of Coasting; Description of a Voyage; Regulations Affecting Yachtsmen; Two Cruises on Lateen-Rigged Craft; Etc. Many of these earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Amity Gaige
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525566922
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year “Brilliantly breathes life not only into the perils of living at sea, but also into the hidden dangers of domesticity, parenthood, and marriage. What a smart, swift, and thrilling novel.” —Lauren Groff, author of Florida Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. With their two kids—Sybil, age seven, and George, age two—Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four foot sailboat awaits them. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given a gust of energy, Juliet emerges from her depression, and the children quickly embrace the joys of being at sea. The vast horizons and isolated islands offer Juliet and Michael reprieve – until they are tested by the unforeseen. A transporting novel about marriage, family and love in a time of unprecedented turmoil, Sea Wife is unforgettable in its power and astonishingly perceptive in its portrayal of optimism, disillusionment, and survival.
Author : Frank Bethwaite
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-04
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781472901309
'Monumental!' - Bob Ross, Australian Sailing High Performance Sailing is now regarded as the bible of racing sailors and carries a string of endorsements from high achievers. Since its publication in 1984, racing yachts and dinghies have developed out of all recognition - a new high-tech breed of 'apparent wind' fast racers has claimed the water and so far no-one has applied themselves seriously to analysing what makes these boats sail fast (and what will make them faster). This is Frank Bethwaite's ground-breaking achievement in Higher Performance Sailing. By means of extensive research, and working with sailors of different racing calibre, Bethwaite analyses how to harness the apparent wind for increased speed and better position on your rivals. Higher Performance Sailing will provide the key to racing sailors' dreams. Praise for Bethwaite's High Performance Sailing: 'It represents a breakthrough...It is a book that my Olympic squad will benefit from.' Rod Carr, former British Olympic Sailing Team Manager 'Allowed only one "if only" in yacht racing, it would have been to have read Higher Performance Sailing years ago.' Bob Fisher, journalist, broadcaster and international championship winner
Author : Patrick M. Royce
Publisher : ProStar Publications
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0911284079
Author : Donald M. Giffin
Publisher : Sail Canada / Voile Canada
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Ashok Kumar
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8171414761
Contents: Safety, Theory of Sailing, Boat Handling, Spinnaker, Fitness for Sailing, Sails, Rigging, Wind, Water and Sail, Sailing in Heavy Weather, Preparing for a Sail, Reading the Weather, Enjoying Sailing, Rules of the Navigation.
