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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 623
EAN: 9781888671094
ISBN: 1888671092
Label: Tiller Publishing
Manufacturer: Tiller Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 372
Publication Date: April 04, 1996
Publisher: Tiller Publishing
Studio: Tiller Publishing
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Tiller Publishing is pleased to announce that, as a result of popular demand, it has reissued Seaworthiness: The Forgotten Factor, by C.A. Marchaj, a classic of modern yacht design analysis.
Newly updated and revised, Seaworthiness is a highly readable critical analysis of how the search for racing yacht performance has led to the development of sailing yachts with potentially dangerous seakeeping characteristics. Based upon the highest degree of practical and academic research, it demonstrates how modern yacht design often sacrifices safety for speed and for other considerations, and it maintains that dramatic changes in design philosophy are needed to prevent further loss of life at sea. This is a major work which will help change the thinking on popular design trends for both racing and cruising yachts.
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It is quite clear, as implied in the title, that Marchaj has a serious problem with the very light displacement, low wetted area, high cg, and high aspect ratio hulls of many offshore racers of the 1970s and 1980s. Or rather he would say that the sea presents a serious problem to these boats in any less than ideal conditions. He then uses the tools of basic naval architecture to present his case in the strongest possible way. The mathematics is all at the level of basic fluid mechanics and is presented ... Read More
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This book is an absolute must for anyone who loves boats more than they have good sense. If you are a cruiser or a racer or a bar stool sealawyer who has any experience at sea, reading this book will lead you step by step from prejudice and intuition into solid insights into the behavior and performance of the different hull shapes in the real world of "at sea" in difficult situations. There is no substitute for "the experience" except the experience to recognise and avoid the experience and this book is ... Read More
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It pickups where others have left off. If you want to understand what effects a boats motion and stability in a seaway, buy this book. It is not a light read, but is well worth the effort.
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This is just one of the many Mr. Marchaj has written on boat design theory. Yacht must look good and be safe ( read seaworthy). In some instances it must also perform. Performance has no value if it can't handle the challange of the seas. "Seaworthiness, the forgotten factor" disects yacht safety down to most intricate detail. Simply, if you haven't read this book, you don't know it all. An absolute 5 star publication, written with great authority, by one of the most respected in the field. Check out ... Read More
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Many people buy boats to satisfy the dream. They are lured by Madison Avenue pitch and the shiney waterbago down the dock. A must read for a studied consideration of an offshore boat for serious cruising.
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