What's For X-mas

I need some new referance material. As a design dabbler I am allways loking for good book on the subject.
What are you guy's favorite books? I have all of Gerr's stuff and a bunch of others.
What should I ask Santa for

 

Being close to the North Pole you may have extra pull I would ask for a complete collection of Rudder magazine. The elves will have to work extra hard for that one.

 

I have asked my wife for enuff men,material,money and time to raise the bismarc and restore her but the wife says we cant afford that and the truck payment hmmm where is bob ballards cell phone number

 

guess what she wants.........

A Lincoln Navigator "We don't have a crying emoticon" My god....
a $62.000.00 grocery go getter! I gotta go bake those money tree elves some cookies!

 

Maybe a little 'go-fast' for you 8, but one of my alltime favourites is Uffa Fox's Seamanlike Sense In Powercraft . Dunno if it's still available or not.
Another Good-un is Renato Levi's Dhows to Delta's

 

Will - two of my favourite books. I have a good friend who has Levi's book (and lets me borrow it as needed) and I hate to admit that I sold my collection of original Uffa's to finance the purchase of a shotgun for the wife (long story involving a barn full of raccoons, four small children, and rabies appearing on our island....)
I am slowly collecting another set as I find them. ;-)

The book I could not do without? Shoot - I couldn't survive without every single one of them.

Steve

 

I have Dhows to Deltas on my shelf beside me along with ducane Llarrson and a few otherss. You are all quite welcome to read them but I would prefer that you did it at my office...

Steve, too funny. I am picturing your wife on the veranda in a rocking chair with a bottle of cider pointing that thing at strangers...

 

Brett - a hint for those who may be tempted to buy a gun for their womenfolks - if you buy a side-by-side, and they have _never_ fired a gun before, only load ONE barrel for the first shot! ;-)

Never have I felt so vulnerable as when she staggered around rubbing her shoulder, swinging the gun by the other hand. It was only a 20-bore, fer heavens' sakes!

 

sail..I took my wife to the gun range..ONCE!..she didnt want to fire my 45 so i got her a 22...nothing scarey right?..wrong the look in here eyes while she was fireing the gun was scarey...she turned and looked at me and said(with bulging bug eyes and a power mad vioce) "I LIKE THIS!!!" tht was the last time we went to the range and the last time I let her hold a gun

 

I mentioned books by Uffa Fox and Levi...they have lines, construction details and expert description from the authors.
You know what I'd like for Xmas?.....the equivalent of these books,discussing lobster boat hullforms - down east boats and the like - hell anything powerboat related with more than just some pretty pictures...

 

On design in general;

From My Old Boat Shop, Weston Farmer

Yacht Designs, and Yacht Designs II, William Garden

On Power Boat Design;

Creative Naval Architecture, G.N. Hatch

Power Yachts, Rosemary & Colin Mudie

Motor Yacht & Boat Design, Douglas Phillips-Birt

Voyaging Under Power, Robert Beebe, first, second, and third edition

Modern Sportfishing Boats, Frank Moss

Fishing Boats of the World, Vol I, II, III, FAO

Milestones in My Designs, Sonny Levi

Speedboat!, D. W. Fostle

Yachts In A Hurry, C. Philip Moore

Modern Ship Design, Tomas C. Gillmer

Some of these I use every day, all the best, Tad

 

Thanks Tad!
...on the upside, my Xmas stocking looks like it will be full
...on the downside, I s'pose they'll have to go on MY credit card

 

I love books, especially books about boats, and most especially boat design. Being a cutting-edge kind of guy, I want all the latest books. So I gave my wife my Christmas list of the newest publications. But, she seems to be having problems finding these? I don't understand it, but here is the list.

Inexpensive Small Yachts, by Steve Dashew
Wining the America's Cup, by Design Group Leader George Buehler
High-Performance Cruising Yachts, by Eric Hiscock
The Absolute Worst of Uffa
1000 Years as a Yacht Designer, Maurice Griffiths
Equations, Lots of Um, Graphs Too, by C.A. Marchaj
Impractical Junk Rig, by Baldie Hasler
Slow Boats Across the North Atlantic, by Dick Newick
Beautiful Boats Drawn by Other People, by Olin Stephens
Break-away Skeg Design, by Bruce Roberts-Goodson
The Incomplete Cruiser, L.F. Herreshoff
43 Gorgeous Plywood Boats With Really Long Overhangs, (and funny rigs to match) by Phil Bolger
The Much Abused Yacht Designer, By Tad Roberts


Tad

 

TAD

I had problem finding them also... Bummer!

So Tad, have you found any NEW design books lately, on modern issues?
I love books about old ideas too, as we build a lot upon them, but any radical thinkers that you or anyone else would recommend?

I like Hi Performance Sailing by Bethwaite for dinghy's, but it seems like he's now getting run past by contributors to this very forum... And also his book is not so much a design book...

 

Anybody who plays with boats and buys his wife a gun has a death wish