Mackrow's Pocket Book
The Naval Architect's, Shipbuilder's and Marine Engineer's Pocket Book of Formulae, Rules and Tables, by Clement Mackrow and Lloyd Woolard. Revised eleventh edition published by Crosby Lockwood, London, 1916. A good clean copy of this popular publication. Unfortunately the front cover is detached but the body of the book is tight and clean.
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Sail Performance
by C.A. Marchaj
Sail Performance Theory and Practice is aimed at students, designers and sailors with a good understanding of the basic physics of sail propulsion.
Selected Contents.
Part One: Rating Formulae and Speed Performance
Speed and Size, Seakindliness and seaworthiness, Speed performance factors
How fast is fast?, The drive towards ultimate speed'
Part two: Aerodynamics of Sails
How and why an aerodynamic force is produced, Distribution of pressure over sails, Effects and measurement of of aerodynamic forces, Aerodynamic drag of the sail,
Apparent wind structure, Sail camber and sail shape, Sail power of various rigs, The effect of wind gradient, Sail-hull interference, Wing sails
Sail interaction, Centre of effort, Cut, set and defects of sails
Part three: Steady and unsteady wind
The significance of barometric depressions, True wind structure, Local winds, Microbursts
Pumping - a legitimate technique?, Rolling downwind, Katzmayr effect.
Appendices
400 pages. B&W photos and dwgs. Hardback.
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Skene's Elements of Yacht Design.
By Francis S. Kinney. Dodd Mead and Co. New York 1962. 214 pp, drawings and tables. We think that this is the Seventh Edition and Kinney's first revision of Skene's classic text which is still available in a soft cover reprint. (See our new book design section.) . The running order is as follows, -Tools Required; The Drawings; Specifications; Methods of Calculation; Methods of Construction (Includes the Nevins and Herreshoff Rules); Galvanic Series; Balance of a Sailboat; Spars and Rigging; Planing Powerboats; Propellers; Rudders; Resistance; Tank Testing; and Upkeep.Finishes with calculations for the featured Pipe Dream cruising sloop, tables and methods.
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Skene's Elements of Yacht Design
By Norman Skene Revised by Francis S. Kinney. A & C Black . London. Eighth edition, corrected reprint 1977. 351 pages. The order of the contents is much changed from the earlier edition starting with Upkeep, 12-Metres, handicap rules, the law of mechanical similitude (the effect of changes in dimensions); appearance; motor sailers; shaft horsepower requirements for displacement boats; sailing boat balance; planing sail boats; resistance; tank testing; propellers; rudders; spars and rigging; design tools; drawings; specifications; Rod Stephen's inspection check list; building with wood, fiberglass, steel, aluminium, and ferrocement; a manual of calculations; tables of useful information.
This is the final and very much revised edition of Skene's classic, with much additional material by Kinney including the Nevins Scantlings and Herreshoff rules. Probably the most comprehensive text on the design of yachts using more traditional methods and only recently superceded by Larson and Eliasson's Principles of Yacht Design. (See our new book section.)
A good clean copy in dustwrapper
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Designing Small Craft
By John Teale.
1st Edition published 1976 by Nautical Publishing. ISBN 024552987X.
John Teale is best known for his power boats, and this book contains some interesting and innovative designs both for power boats and sailing boats. Chapters cover Flat Bottom Boats, Single Chine Forms, Double Chine Forms, Round Bilges, Tables and Index.The only book I know that explains conical projection in relation to plywood construction.
A nice clean copy in dustwrapper.
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