The story of the design and construction of a wooden sailboat

by Gary Schwarzman

With clarity, warmth and humour, Schwarzman shows the beauty of a naval architect's drawings, and how the practical challenge of combining function, philosophy and aesthetics turns a plan into a boat.

This well organised book will be helpful to anyone considering custom, boatbuilding.

208pp, b/w photos & line drawings, hardback

by Ferenc Mate

Lovingly written and beautifully photographed, 'Best Boats' is an evaluation of the most elegantly designed and best built sailboats in stages - from a bare hull to a finished yacht.

Ranging from the ageless Herreshoff day-sailer to the ultra light Santa Cruz flyers, the book features some of the finest works of designers such as German Frers, Chuck Paine, Bill Crealock, Doug Peterson, Lyle Hess, and others. It also contains interviews with legendary builders such as Tom Morris, the Cherubinis, Cecil Lange and Tom Dreyfus.

Using the surveyed boats as examples, Mate shows what to look for when contemplating the purchase of any sailboat.

Paperback, 384pp, 304 b/w photographs and illustrations, 9" x 12", 2002.

by Ian Nicolson
6th Ed.
2009

The Boat Data Book is a treasure trove of invaluable information for boatowners, designers, builders, surveyors, chandlers and anyone maintaining their own boat.

This sixth edition contains more tables of lengths, widths, weights and strengths as well as new data on a vast range of equipment from anchors to masts, propellers to gas cylinders, cleat sizes to winch bases, and hatches to bolts, bearings, cabling and piping.

If you want to know what size winch to fit, the breaking strength of stainless steel rigging wire, the recommended size for seacocks or what length and size an anchor chain should be, then the Boat Data Book is a must-have reference.

Pb. 224pp 234x156mm over 100 diag. and graphs.

RRP £17.99 OUR PRICE £14.45

Design commentaries by the experts

A mountain of information has been culled from the best boat design reviews from 'WoodenBoat' magazine to enable you to spend hours pouring over a variety of boats, from rowing craft to motor boats, and daysailers to cruising boats.

260pp, 100+ line drawings and photographs, paperback

by Loveridge

75 Unconventional Designs and Concepts

Tired of fibreglass look-alikes you see at the boat shows? Here are 75 novel and wonderful boats some strange, some beautiful, all of them paragons of Phil Bolger's form-follows-function design philosophy. Cruising sailboats that take the ground at low tide; a glass-galleried, beachable birdwatching boat; a planning microtrawler; his-and-hers schooners; kid's pirate boats; power, sail, and rowing boats from 6 to 95 feet these are boats as only Bolger's unfettered imagination does them.

US Publication, Paperback

By Mendlowitz & Bray
1993
Inspired by the Calendar of Wooden Boats - this book takes 90 images from 10 years of the calendar and then adds a further 120. A passionate tribute to wooden boats and a superb coffee table book.

191p Hb colour photos

By Mendlowitz, Benjamin & Bray

2001

Second volume of the tribute to wooden boats

By Gardner

This large handsome volume contains all the plans, measurements and directions to build any of the 47 boats - sail, motor or oar.

US publication, paperback

By A. & M. Bray

This is a book of line drawings from the original issues of the Rudder magazine. A unique persepective on some incredible designs from the past - both yachts and powerboats.

280x216mm 112p b/w photos. Pb

By Rousmaniere
1990

Jointly written by the Technical Committee of the Cruising Club of America, this work considers not just the design of the boat, but all its equipment, its layout and stowage. This is a manual on how to create a seaworthy, efficient, safe and comfortable boat.

310p Hb

by Dave Gerr

This book has all the formulae, tables, illustrations and charts needed to judge how strong each part of a boat should be in order to be durable and safe. With this book, an inexpensive scientific calculator and a pad of paper, readers will be able to design and specify all the components necessary to build a sound, long-lasting, rugged vessel - whether power or sail, displacement or planing, and capable of reaching speeds up to 45 knots.

376pp 200 line illustrations (hardback)

RRP £32.00 OUR PRICE £25.99

By Lucia del Sol Knight and Daniel Bruce MacNaughton.

This complete, international reference book of yacht designers from the early 1800s to the present day is a tribute to the world's great designers. Ten years in preparation and with an expert editorial board, this volume defines the field with entries by 80 experts and over 600 photographs and drawings.
In this majestic guide, legendary figures such as William Fife, L. Francis Herreshoff, Uffa Fox and John Alden share space with contemporary designers such as Jon Bannenburg, German Frers and Ron Holland, and are joined by over 500 others from all over the world.

528pp 242x305mm 650 duotone photos, drawings.

RRP £150.00 OUR PRICE £139.00

By G. Anderson

New Zealanders have been building boas that plane for over 100 years. Much innovation has been achieved by amateurs and this book is the story of New Zealand's contribution to racing boat design at all levels.

Pb 180p

Construction plans for sail, power and rowing boats.

275x212mm 120p 100 draw. Pb

By Barry Pickthall

A lavishly presented insight into the lives and the yachts of one of the most prolific and successful design families. Swan, Hallberg-Rassy, Beneteau and Jeanneau are all Frers creations.

302x234mm 208p 181 colour photos. 102 draw. Hb.

RRP £65.00 OUR PRICE £55.00

Photos by Benjamin Mendlowitz, text by Maynard Bray

A beautiful and handy guide to sailing vessels by the USA's pre-eminent photographer of wooden boats.

Virtually all the major designs are represented, with photos , notes and specifications for 145 vessels.

1996 Hb 145 colour photos

by John Teale

This straightforward guide is designed to take the novice step-by-step through the stages of designing both power and sailing boats, explaining the reasons behind the procedures and using typical line plans and working drawings to help understanding.

160pp, paperback, b&w line drawings, 3rd edition 2006 re-issue

RRP £11.99 OUR PRICE £9.99

by Gerr

The perfect browser's guide to understanding what makes boats tick. This fascinating, fun and useful book looks at sail and powerboats from all angles. Naval architect, Dave Gerr, explains everything from how thick a hull should be to why one sailboat tips less than another, from building a dinghy to simple rules of thumb for dozens of design quandaries.

paperback, 418pp

By B. Anderson
2004

What is the best shape for a yacht? How does turbulence affect the yachts movement through water? Authoritative yet accessible this book outlines the science behind sailing simply, concisely and with many examples and illustrations.

Pb 200p 230x153mm b/w photos & line drawings.

by Rolf Eliasson and Lars Larsson

'Principles of Yacht Design' has now established itself as the standard book on the subject for practising designers, naval architecture students, discerning boat owners and the boatbuilding industry as a whole. Now revised and expanded for the third edition it examines every aspect of the process of yacht and powerboat design.

The authors have used a newly designed 40 foot performance cruiser to demonstrate the practical application of yacht design theory. Beginning with the yacht's specifications, the authors examine vital topics and conclude with practical matters such as the layout of the cockpit, deck and cabin, and provide a complete weight calculation for the boat.

Hardback, 368 pp, 264x192 mm, 3rd edition 2007. B&W photos and colour line drawings.

RRP £39.99, OUR PRICE £31.99

By C. A. Marchaj

'For the first time we are offered logical scientific criteria which help us to assess the likely seaworthiness of one boat or another' - PBO.
Covers - Effect of Racing Rules on Yacht Design, Boat Motion in a Seaway, Stability and its Effects on Safety, Effect of IOR on Hydrostatic Stability, Stability in a Seaway, Rolling Induced by Waves, Damping - Protection Against a Rough Sea, Effect of Heaving Motion on Capsize Probability, Rolling Induced by Rudder Action, Dynamic Metacentric Stability, Effects of Design Features on Seaworthiness, Directional Stability and Steering, Survival Tactics.

Pb.372pp b/w diag.175x250mm

By J. Bevan Smith

A biography of the leading designer Bruce Farr, this book includes some outspoken debate on design issues at the highest level and casts a fascinating light on this rarified world.

Hb 434p

By F. Pace

Sparkman & Stephens is arguably the most famous 20th Century yacht design company in the USA and have significantly influenced yacht devlopment for nearly 100 years. This book has Paces stunning photos, a foreward by Olin Stephens, resulting in a glamorous book.

Hb slipcase. large format. 160p 300 colour photos

RRP £49.50 OUR PRICE £39.99

by Brewer

There are lots of questions answered in this book:
If one boat has a round bottom and another's is veed, what difference does it make in the way they perform? What are the advantages of a cutter rig over a sloop? Why does one sailor swear by a full keel, while others won't have anything but a fin keel? Why does one powerboat have more flare in its topsides than another? How big an engine and propeller will it take to move that powerboat? What are the elements of a safe boat, or a comfortable cruising boat?

160pp, paperback

By Ian Nicolson

How to design your own boat, or understand a designers plans and predict how she will perform. Written for the complete beginner, but also useful for naval architect students.

240x171mm 128p 17 plans. Pb

RRP £14.95 OUR PRICE £11.99

My Boats and What Shaped Them
By R. Perry
2008
Perry designs are recognized as the epitome of offshore cruising yachts. His Tayana 37 is the most popular offshore cruising sailboat in the world.
Perry was inducted into the American Boatbuilders Hall of Fame in 1995 and Cruising World magazine?s Cruising Hall of Fame in 1989.

Hb. 240pp

RRP £22.99 OUR PRICE £19.99

By S. Killing and D. Hunter

State of the art graphics, dynamic charts and photographs are used with clear explanantions to show what makes hulls, keels, ballast, rudders, foils, masts and sails work. Why do certain designs work whilst others fail?

A range of boats examined from a 14 foot dinghy to a 40 foot cruiser. Aimed at every sailor.

Hb. Photos., illus. 288p

by Trower

A highly illustrated guide to the principles and practice of designing yachts and small craft, aimed at students and all those keen to build their own yacht.

Concentrating primarily on hull forms, sails, keels and rudders, the book also deals with the visual aspects of design, culminating in a step-by-step procedure for constructing a boat from scratch. The book assumes no great experience of mathematics or sailing theory.

176pp, hardback

by Spurr

Don't let the more than 500 stunning, full colour photographs fool you - this book is not just another 'coffee-table' book of pretty boats, but a thought provoking treatise on what constitutes good design in yachts.
You'll find both classic and innovative solutions to problems experienced by every boatowner: questions of light, space, colour, materials, access, and stowage. Includes interviews with leading boat and interior designers, brokers and surveyors.

320pp, colour photographs, paperback

For small and large boats

This book is packed with the best woodworking projects from Woodenboat Magazine. Ranging from a beautiful skylight, teak grates, ships wheel,cabin locker, louvred doors, hollow spars, oars and paddles.

275x212mm 220p 100 draw. & photos
Pb

By Peter Spectre

For sail, paddle and oar.

The plans, materials and skills and methods needed are all covered.

275x212mm 208p 200 b/w photos.

A second catalogue of building plans

A selection of study plans to enable prospective builders examine a range of different boat designs and building techniques. Details of hull dimensions, displacement sail area and construction methods.

275x212mm b/w draw. 80p Pb