Chinese Sailing Rig Designing and Building Your Own

The Chinese Sailing Rig - Designing and Building Your Own is a practical handbook which emphasizes adapting western hulls to a Chinese rig. Its "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 emphasis here is on "practical". Everything this book presents has been done and tried, before being explained in words and diagrams.This edition is an update of the original edition which has been selling around the world since 1981.Van Loan, Derek is the author of 'Chinese Sailing Rig Designing and Building Your Own' with ISBN 9780939837182 and ISBN 0939837188.