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  1. 7th December 2009, 02:49 PM #1
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    Question Best boat desing books?

    Hello,

    I am going to design a stitch and glue micro cruiser that is theoretically capable of circumnavigation, at the very least, capable of extended offshoring.
    I know they are not popular boats, re uncomfortable, dangerous and to many, pointless, but i'm doing it anyway.

    I surfed about for the best possible stitch and glue books and found:

    Devlin's Boatbuilding: How to Build Any Boat the Stitch-and-Glue Way
    The Gougeon Brothers on Boat Construction

    They seem to be the industry standard books on this method and should arrive shortly.

    Now I am after the best design books with an amateur in mind. No advanced naval architecture with complex physics for ocean liners and steam ships. Preferably ones that use pencil and paper drafting and cardboard and balsa modeling. Not that i dont like computers and CAD, but for a project this size, paper will be fine.

    A couple have suggested:
    The nature of boats by Dave Gerr
    'How to design a boat' by J Teal

    Are there any others I should be aware of or are these the ones to go for?
    Any info would be greatly appreciated.

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    Why are you wedded to stitch and glue? It has its place but it has its limitations. Nor is it necessarily the easiest or cheapest way of building a boat. It might be appropriate for this build but then again ...

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    Just looking at all the ocean going micro yachts that i am intested in, 95% of them are stitch and glue.

    It seems to be the lightest and strongest way to build such a small hull.
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    Gerr's books are good. The other book that goes through calculations etc is
    "Skene's elements of Yacht Design"

    There are two versions which are quite different.

    Traditionalists will cringe ... but I have found the Kinney version (only available second hand) hugely useful because of the methods for designing everything from the keel to the mast (and everything in between).

    I don't know the Teal book but the table of contents on Amazon does show it covering conic projection. Which I don't think any of the others do.

    Another with a bit more mathematics is Eliasson and Larsson
    [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Yacht-Design-Lars-Larsson/dp/0071353933]Amazon.com: Principles of Yacht Design (9780071353939): Lars Larsson, Rolf Eliasson: Books[/ame]

    You can't avoid maths if you want a save and stable boat! But it is high school stuff.

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