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  • EDITION:
    3rd Edition
  • ISBN:
    0071487697
  • ISBN-13:
    9780071487696
  • PUB. DATE:
    July 2007
  • PUBLISHER:
    McGraw-Hill Companies, The
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Principles of Yacht Design / Edition 3 by Lars Larsson, Rolf Eliasson

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This book offers up-to-date information on the design of modern craft. It mostly contains information for the design of fiberglass high performance sailboats, although it does contain some material on power yachts. I found this book very pleasurable due to the quality and clarity of the engineering knowledge presented by the authors -- this book does not merely present traditional rules of thumb,...

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Principles of Yacht Design

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  • Pub. Date: July 2007
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
  • Sales Rank: 847,065

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Create your desired yacht with help from this yacht-design bible

This handsome edition of Principles of Yacht Design—the accepted standard yacht-design reference for boat owners, designers, and builders—is updated throughout, particularly the calculations of hull and deck thicknesses, or scantlings. Its new two-color format makes it easier for you to use its many elegant illustrations.

Lars Larsson, a naval architect, is a professor of hydrodynamics at Chalmers University of Technology, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Rolf E. Eliasson, a yacht design/construction engineer specializing in boat structures, runs his own yacht design company.

Biography

Lars Larsson, a naval architect, is a professor of hydrodynamics at Chalmers University of Technology, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Rolf E. Eliasson, a yacht design/construction engineer specializing in boat structures, runs his own yacht design company.