The Chinese Sailing Rig: Designing and Building Your Own
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (572 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0939837188 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 111 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This edition is an update of the original edition which has been selling around the world since 1981. It's a take a hammer in one hand and a nail in the other approach leads the amateur designer/builder through all the steps from dream to voyage. The Chinese Sailing Rig - Designing and Building Your Own is a practical handbook which emphasizes adapting western hulls to a Chinese rig. The emphasis here is on 'practical.' Everything this book presents has been done and tried, before being explained in words and diagrams. Includes 28 illustrations.
"hammer and nails" approach A Customer After reading pages of information about Chinese lug sails (junk rig) on the web and still finding lots of gaps in the details, I ordered this thin book. Despite it's size, it contains a wealth of information.The only areas I found really lacking are in mast design (especially since unstayed masts are outside the norm of most design books) and information and pictures of actual boats.I can't imagine going from a stayed mast design to an. Midwest Book Review said A thoroughly user-friendly guide. The Chinese Sailing Rig: Designing And Building Your Own by Derek Van Loan and Don Haggarty is a thoroughly user-friendly guide to constructing a seaworthy boat just like the ones that have served the Chinese throughout history. Numerous black-and-white sketches clearly illustrate the individual steps vital for proper construction. Every step in the guide is "practical" in that it has been successfully done, and can be performed by any . "Junk Rig Sails" according to cgret. Not exactly what I was looking for, which was more along the lines of how to craft a junk rig sail for a small boat.