CRUISING YACHTS *

CRUISING YACHTS *

DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE

35,00 €
IVA inclòs
Disponible
Editorial:
LODESTAR BOOKS
Any d'edició:
Matèria
Construcción y manten. yates-carpintería ribera
ISBN:
978-1-907206-36-8
Pàgines:
269
Enquadernació:
Rústica
Idioma:
Inglés

Dr Thomas Harrison Butler was a skilled, yet amateur, designer responsible for some hundreds of classic English cruising yachts which still grace our seas. Cruising Yachts, his design manifesto, first appeared in 1945'the year of his death'and last appeared in print in 1995. This long overdue Fifth Edition has been produced in collaboration with the Harrison Butler Association, and is a complete re-setting of the original text, drawings and mono photographs, documenting in detail HBs approach to the design and equipping of a yacht, providing an annotated catalogue of notable designs, and including a biographical portrait by HBs daughter, the late Joan Jardine-Brown. New for this edition are a modern gallery of colour photographs of HB yachts, and a thoughtful and illuminating Foreword by the late Ed Burnett, who was our foremost designer of modern yachts in the classic