The Chinese Sailing Rig: Designing and Building Your Own
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (761 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0939837188 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 111 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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.. 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. This edition is an update of the original edition which has been selling around the world since 1981
""hammer and nails" approach" according to 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 mast. 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 . Junk Rig Sails 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.