Yacht Designer Bible Poll

[Yacht Skipper]

Hello, I was searching for the Yacht designer Bible.
I see plenty of books, I would love to have the money and time to buy them all and read them all, but it's not the case.
If everybody had to choose 1 book to be considered as the ultimate Yacht Designer Bible for application to sailboats.
Which one would you choose ?
That would be interesting to have a poll on this.

Thanks

[Guillermo]

From a divulgative (but rigurous) point of view, I think Larsson/Eliasson's "Principles of Yacht Design" is hard to beat.
Cheers.

[MikeJohns]

I'd agree
"Priciples......" is definately the most up to date thorough walkthrough of design and it's authors are academics so it is a thorough approach.

A more inate understanding of the hydrodynamics is given by Pier Gutelle in "The design of sailing yachts" but it is more fundamental that "Principles". Piers book is a re-compilation and update of Marchajs earlier aerohydrodynamics which was a bit disjointed.
Cheers

[Man Overboard]

Mike,
Concerning "The design of sailing yachts" is there any new information added that might be worth the purchase? I have Marchaj's Aerohydrodynamics of Sailing, now 16 years old (and all his other books). I'm curios as to the differance between the two.

[MikeJohns]

Tom
It's very similar, a few updated studies and references but far better to read. He plagaurised a lot of Marchaj's work (according to Marchaj).
cheers