Classic Sailboats Author: Jill Bobrow

Product Details: ISBN: 9788854405806 Format: Hardback Pages: 272 Dimensions: 270mm x 310mm Pub Date: 31-3-2011 Pub Country: Italy Condition: NEW

Product Description: Of all the hundreds of types of pleasure craft, large and small, that you can see on any given day in any given body of water, you may rest assured that the one that will draw your eye will invariably be a classic sailing yacht. And this is the case not only with sailors, who can be presumed to recognize a yacht's pedigree; the rankest landlubber almost always reacts the same way, in the universal spontaneous appreciation of beauty that we all feel when confronted with it. This book, then, is dedicated to a celebration of that beauty, that indescribable quality that makes a sailing yacht a "classic" in the truest sense of the word. We will begin by defining, or attempting to define, just exactly what a classic yacht is. We will review and discuss some of the typical factors we should consider: design, materials, vintage, size, and builder. Also discuss how different countries - and different builders within one country - developed individual solutions to common problems, as well as investigating the events and trends that led to those problems. This attempt at defining the meaning of "classic" will lead to the inescapable conclusion that, when applied to yachts, the word encompasses a remarkably broad range of parameters. A 50-meter steel gaff schooner is no more a classic than a perfectly proportioned small one-design such as a Herreshoff 12-1/2. In between those two extremes there is a world of beautifully crafted sailing yachts that trul

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