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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.8458
EAN: 9780939773190
Edition: 2
ISBN: 0939773198
Label: Society of Naval Architects &
Manufacturer: Society of Naval Architects &
Number Of Pages: 140
Publication Date: 1996-04
Publisher: Society of Naval Architects &
Studio: Society of Naval Architects &
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The primary audience for this book is a boat designer who has experience designing scantlings for wood, steel or aluminum boats. It assumes you have enough of a knowledge of solid mechanics to calculate stresses and deflections in reinforced panels. It gives design load data for different classes of boats, but omits some data, such as rigging loads on sailboats. Given that knowledge, with this book you can design a sound fiberglass boat.
I'll note that this is not a "how-to" type of cookbook. It's an engineering text. If you have the technical background, it's a great resource. It isn't useful, however, as a general introduction into boat design and construction.
Update July 2008: The book is unavailable through Amazon, but is still available new for $25 at the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, SNAME.org
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I did not enjoy this book at all. The diagrams in the book were poorly explained and their were very few photographs. Furthermore, this book was not very specific in its methods. It merely provided an overview of what I was looking to learn.
Unless you are looking for a very vague, bland and boring book, I would not recommend this one.
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