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It will take quite some time to work-through, and unless you are an engineering-student, or engineer, this is likely to stretch your mind.

I've many books on boats, now: designing, building, sailing, etc...

You CANNOT be competent at sailboat design without this, or, if it ever gets updated, the newest version of this book.

• Design Methology
• Preliminary Considerations
• Hull Geometry
• Hydrostatics & Stability
• Hull Design
• Keel & Rudder Design
• Sail & Rig Design
• Balance
• Propeller & Engine
• High Speed Hydrodynamics
• Rig Construction
• Hull Construction
• Materials
• Scantling Determination
• Layout

• Design Evaluation

• appendices

There is simply far far far too much evolved knowledge in good boat design, for anybody to "wing it" and sponge stuff off the 'web, & end up with something even comparable to what this will enable one to do.

IF you are working up a sailboat design, or even a motor boat design, THEN please do yourself a favor, & read this.

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen.

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He doesn't pull any punches, intellectually: this is college-level, not the dumbed-down stuff that much of the writing on religion is...

I only read the Hindu, Buddhist, & Primal religion chapters, because life shattered my ability to live within the Abrahamic religions, years ago ( I've experienced some of my soul's previous-incarnation memories, so the Abrahamic-religions, with their dumbed-down assumptions, and their "God revolves around Man" paradigm, were all destroyed, for me, and when the only 2 religion-paradigms left, the Buddhist & the Hindu, differ by 1 being addicted-to-religiosity, & the other being Science-of-spirit & Engineering-of-spirit, I had no choice but to choose AwakeSoul-ism/Buddhism, the impersonal one.

I've since discovered that this incarnation wasn't the 1st buddhist one that the soul underlying "my" life had, so .. I'm just returning to buddhism, then. )

This is the only work which tells people that souls evolve, and have their own life-cycles, properly.

This is the only work which tells people how impersonal buddhism is.

( it doesn't explain that until final-dissolution, atman/soul is useful as a basis for outgrowing the ignorance-to-gnosis process, but once liberation-from-uncontrolled-incarnations is earned, then atman/soul definitely is delusion, and need be shed, so only Awareness remains, but NO self, of ANY kind, fixing it.

That subtlety seems to have been lost, in the last dozen centuries, or so, of buddhism. )

I simply defy you to understand the American Indian religions as well, before reading this book, as you will after...

Each of the major religions has its own paradigm, and cutting through the clutter find the essence of each one, of the ones I read, has never been done better, ttbomk.

Yes, I intend to read the Abrahamic religions chapters, but .. when you push AnimalsAndTribesTime religions ( as the Abrahamic religions are ), into someone who outgrew them decades ago .. it isn't fun.

This is one of the books I would require of high-school kids, or 1st-year college kids.

It would gut much prejudice, if understood by more of the population, and that would be a good thing.

I know of no competitor to this book, nothing even close.

All the boats that fail, fall-apart, burst, drown, split, or otherwise sink due to something other than crew mismanagement, are boats built either:

• on incompetent design
• on incompetent mistargetting ( like that riverboat that somebody was sailing in the ocean, and it just snapped in 2, with only the deck holding the front & rear halves together ), or
• on incompetent/scammy building.

This book & the McNaughton Scantlings book ( I have both, and on any build I do, I'm going to do both sets of calculations, & compare them, to see if there are any obvious defects in 1 or the other: offshore is betting one's life ), are the only 2 books which give you how to calculate what materials to put where, in order to end up with a safe-in-the-ocean boat.

Dave Gerr gives you the ability to calculate everything's required materials, so you can build a lighter & cheaper build for inland sailing, or a robust boat for offshore, or anything in between ( coastal, e.g. ).

There is no equivalent to this book.

Unfortunately, it doesn't cover multihulls, and the ISO standards required for meeting their minimum standards ( those standards apparently are bottom-of-the-barrel ), cost 200 Euros per piece of the standard, and you need several pieces ( they seem to have written them to force one to have to buy all of them?? )

Multihull designers of offshore boats may require full-on engineering services, instead of mere scantlings-calculating books...

Anyways, Aluminum, Wood, Composite, iirc steel is also in here ( iirc concrete isn't in here ), it can take awhile to work through all the equations for your particular build, ( this part gets this thickness, that part gets that thickness ), but experience-derived scantlings is your only method that is going to give you a trustworthy boat, and you have only 2 options, as noted above.

Worth its weight in platinum, for anyone who ends up in a boat designed by you, obviously: lives are on the line.

I also recommend his other books, or Nigel Calder's books, for filling-in the rest of one's understandings for designing/building a habitable, solidly-built, boat.

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen.

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