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Price: $245.00 as of 11/22/2009 13:23 EST
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.8223
EAN: 9780393024951
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0393024954
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 279
Publication Date: 1996-04
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A big, beautiful book presenting the finest and most beautiful sailing yachts designed by one of America's greatest yacht designers during the last fifty years--the histories, plans and magnificent photographs. More than 200 duotones, more than 200 drawings.
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I paid for this in August and have yet, as of November 3, to receive it.
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This is a book for the yachting purist and technically minded. Few design offices have achieved the success of S&S. The book covers meter boats to fast cruising designs as well as out and out racers. This volume is a must for any sailor with a knowledge of the hsitory of yacht design. One dissappointment is the lack of colour photographs. It is difficult to appreciate the true beauty of "The Classic Yachts" when all are depicted with line drawings and black hulls.
Generally a good ... Read More
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I¹m afraid this book is a bit of a disappointment. For me and, I suspect, many others, S&S is synonymous with the Stephens brothers, especially with Olin. Although, with characteristic modesty, he would probably be the first to disagree, his successors just did not live up to him. So, for me, the book should have covered designs only up to the late seventies. Besides, I would argue that to an unbiased observer (which the authors are not) the best 100 S&S boats are all from that period. It seems ... Read More
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