The Modern Cruising Sailboat: A Complete Guide to its Design, Construction, and Outfitting (INTERNATIONAL MARINE-RMP) - Hardcover

Doane, Charles J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071478108 ISBN 13: 9780071478106

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2010

Synopsis

A comprehensive guide to help you identify and equip the boat that best suits your needs Well-known boating writer Charles Doane unravelsthe complexity of cruising sailboat design and explains the fundamentals and the ramifications of each design decision. In easy-to-understand terms, Doane explains theoreticalaspects of design, pragmatic issues like keel shapeand berth configuration, pros and cons of variousconstruction methods and materials, outfitting, propulsion,rigging and much more.

About this title

About the Author:

Charley Doane, former senior editor of SAIL, is currently that magazine's editor at large. He has also worked on staff at Cruising World, and Offshore magazines, and written dozens of freelance articles for Blue Water Sailing, Ocean Navigator, Boatworks, and Yachting Monthly. The author of dozens of technical features and boat tests, he has served as a judge in SAIL's Top Ten competition. He lived aboard a cruising boat for two years, has sailed 30,000 offshore miles (including five transatlantic crossings) and innumerable coastal miles, and possesses a wide range of experience that includes skippering deliveries and captained charters, bareboats, and crewing. He has edited manuscripts for International Marine and was the revising author for a successful cruising book for Sheridan House.

About this edition

• Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0071478108
• ISBN 13: 9780071478106
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400