Recomend a Naval Architecture Textbook

[MattZ]

I'm an engineering physics/electrical engineering student that would one day like to design and build my own boat. (Probably like 10-15 years down the road. There's no room in my academic schedule for a course in nav)al architecture, nonetheless I would like to learn a little bit about with some academic rigor.

Is there anybody out there who could recommend a good second or third year university level textbook for naval architecture?

[marshmat]

MattZ,

Try Larsson/Eliasson "Principles of Yacht Design". It's a good starting point and sufficiently thorough to get you excited for more exotic fare (I got my copy when I was in 2nd/3rd year eng.phys, it's a concise and easy read for someone with your background).

Also look at Dave Gerr's technical handbooks ("Elements of Boat Strength", "Propeller Handbook", etc.), all of which are quite useful and inexpensive by textbook standards.

The original Skene's "Elements of Yacht Design" is a fun read; I'm not such a fan of the Kinney revision though.

C.A. Marchaj wrote a few thorough, engineering-heavy treatises on sail performance, seaworthiness and other aspects of design; of course, guru writings come with a guru price tag.

There's a giant, horrifically expensive reference manual on naval architecture published by SNAME that is frequently cited by some of the pro designers as being a sort of "book of everything", I'd love to see a copy but can't afford it right now.

[Ad Hoc]

Mattz

Introduction to Naval Architecture, by Rawson & Tupper
or
Principals of Naval Architecture, SNAME publication....which is not expensive Matt, well compared to some of the other books I have it is cheap!!

But it really depends what you want from your book. Many of those posted above are good 'practical' books on design boats. Just enough theory to make things comprehensible. But if you're after more in depth, then i recommend these two.

There are some other wonderful books, which i also have, but sadly out of print now...too old!

[yipster]

this old man is now reading "Yacht Designing and Planning" by Howard I. Chapelle
lovely easy to read old book from the library that covers all basics early last century
i doubt many of us still use ruling pens and drawingboard but many like retro boats
in the masthead banner try the boatdesign bookstore and check amazon for reviews
read many books and with i-net and this forum is IMHO the way without NA course

[DEboater]

You can't go wrong with Introduction to Naval Architecture, Thomas Gillmer & Bruce Johnson. I have SD&C, PNA, etc, these are all more industry reference books, not textbooks.

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[abhishek]

u refer basic principles of naval architecture, rossen anad tupper and taggart for ship design and construction and eyeres for ship construction

[Jenny Giles]

Principles of Naval Architecture has been mentioned. I heard a rumour last year that it was being updated and revised. From memory, Prof. J N. Newman and some others at MIT were involved in the revision.