Principles of Yacht Design Hardcover – January 3, 2014

As with the previous editions of the Principles of Yacht Design, the authors have covered the design of a yacht from A to Z with enough principles, concepts and mathematics to allow the student yacht designer to do a thorough job with his or her design. This edition presents a new design example that is thoroughly contemporary and reflects the current style of design - plumb bow, broad beam carried to the stern and fairly flat canoe body lines. The worked examples clearly show how to perform the calculations necessary to provide the hydrostatic data needed for the design. Other calculations provide the ability to size the strength of the rigging and the hull. It is no wonder that the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers has had the Principles of Yacht Design on their list of books to purchase. This edition sits alongside my editions of Principles of Naval Architecture, Ship Design and Construction, Hydrodynamics of Ships, and Skene's Elements of Yacht Design.

This book covers almost everything there is to know about designing a boat, particularly a sailboat, particular using GRP, (and it has little information on other building materials). It's easy to read, if all you want is a basic understanding of the questions and issues involved, and, it has the math, if you're looking to perform the calculations for your own boat design. The book is several years old, now, but as it turns out gravity, buoyancy, and aerodynamics haven't changed much in the intervening years.

Llego súper rápido, se averió un poco en las esquinas con el envío, por eso no se califica con 5 estrellas.La calidad del libro es buenísima y el contenido igual.

A clear, readable, thorough, comprehensive and up to date text. The list of references is very useful and leads to many further valuable sources of information.The only significant downside for me is that I wish it had more (anything?) about multihulls and their specific design issues. Maybe the authors could co-opt a leading multihull designer to contribute a couple of specific chapters for a future edition.I would also like to see more about rig design from a fundamental point of view rather than a scantlings rule based point of view.

I bought this edition when it was first released and went through it page by page in order to transfer my margin notes from prior editions to this one. While the publishers are to be commended for their continued support of this highly valuable reference work, in particular to add new material, it is quite shocking to see some highly practical basic information deleted from this new edition.For example the text and graphs within Chapter 5 having to do with the effects on resistance due to the location of the LCB (which exist in all three prior editions of PYD) have - bizarrely - been deleted from this edition. A full five pages of text and valuable graphs... poof - gone - reduced to a few paragraphs. What were they thinking...? Granted this information can be found elsewhere, however as one who has taught the basics of yacht design it is in my view extremely important to retain all of the 'basics', not only for the sake of new students, but also for reference.I lay this complaint firmly at the doorstep of the publisher, who in all likelihood decided that 'some things had to go' in order to make room for new content. Unbelievable! Perhaps if it is getting too big, it should be published in two volumes...Why only three stars...?Students and yacht designers alike should definitely own this book, however I recommend also finding the THIRD edition..!

Gift for my husband who had one of the very early editions of this book and was keen to get the latest updated edition. Very well received and definitely more informative than the earlier editions.

too simple and summarized to really help the understanding of yacht design

I sail, so I got this book so I would have more of an ideawhat the shape of the boat does, etc.It was terribly drab full of equations and graphs that offered no value outsideof a theoretical setting. It offered no real life value for me.Definitely un-accessible to me.