Fast Boats – A guide to speed under sail and power
Language: English
Published by St. Martin';s Press, New York, 1961
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Tools and Trades Books, Antrim, NH, U.S.A.Tools and Trades Books
AbeBooks seller since January 13, 2025
Condition: Used - Fine
£ 22.85
Quantity: 1 available
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A comprehensive guide exploring hull designs, speed mechanics, and hydrodynamics for both sailing yachts and motorized watercraft. It features black-and-white photographic plates, diagrams, and illustrations to break down the physics of fast watercraft. Book is fine with crisp corners, dark blue cloth-covered boards, silver print on spine; jacket has edge wear and tears, but was placed in a plastic sleeve long ago. 115 pp. There is a light tan stain inside the front; all pages fine.
Seller Inventory # AB1586
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Fast Boats – A guide to speed under sail and power
- Author
- John Teale
- Publisher
- St. Martin';s Press, New York
- Publication year
- 1961
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item weight
- 2 pounds
- Dimensions
- 5.75 inches width by 0 inches height by 8.5 inches depth
Tools and Trades Books
Antrim, NH, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since January 13, 2025
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We offer a curated selection of books about traditional hand tools and skills, making tools, creating beautiful objects in wood, early technology and more. This can include cabinetmaking, furniture building and other projects; early 20th Century trades textbooks and manuals; reference books on early technology, books on early skills and processes, the classic studies of tool categories such as marking gauges, wooden planes, saws, etc.; and of course, tool catalogs from dozens of companies, well-known and obscure. …
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Tools and Trades Books
NH, U.S.A.
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Jane Butler
Post Office Box 487
Antrim NH, 03440 U.S.A.
1-603-588-2603
janebbutler@icloud.com
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