The Modern Cruising Sailboat: A Complete Guide to its Design, Construction, and Outfitting

By Charles Doane

A comprehensive guide to help you identify and equip the boat that best suits your needs

Well-known boating writer Charles Doane unravelsthe complexity of cruising sailboat design and explains the fundamentals and the ramifications of each design decision. In easy-to-understand terms, Doane explains theoreticalaspects of design, pragmatic issues like keel shapeand berth configuration, pros and cons of variousconstruction methods and materials, outfitting, propulsion, rigging and much more.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071478108
• ISBN13: 9780071478106
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: International Marine Publishing
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.9" x 11.1"