Sailing, Seamanship and Yacht Construction

Sailing, Seamanship and Yacht ConstructionPacked with information, ideas, and more than 300 excellent illustrations, this classic of the genre was written by the father of modern planing sailboats. Most of text focuses on individual vessels; among the 20 profiled are the 60 foot long Landfall; the Patience; and the author's own creation, the Vigilant. Unabridged republication of the edition published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1936.

It is also an outstanding and inexpensive source of copyright-free fashion illustrations for use by designers and craftspeople

The first three chapters progress in a relatively leisurely fashion and include abundant detail to make them as comprehensible as possible

Mary Shelley's suspenseful narrative of a misbegotten monster's revenge resounds with compelling questions about ambition

Enlivened by excerpts from authentic letters

but at the love with which we do them

fourth brother

machine shop

and the posthumous Nocturne in C-sharp Minor

at ends of chapters

air flight

books on red walls

cold weather