Fr. 49.10

How NOT to Build a Boat

English · Paperback / Softback

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When their old GRP yacht was devastated by a Southern Ocean storm, Jill Schinas and her husband, Nick, resolved to build something stronger. Gaily - and without having researched the matter to the least degree - they threw themselves into the work of designing and constructing the ultimate, ocean-proof, eco-friendly, dream cruising yacht. On their side they had a wealth of sailing experience, which provided a perfect knowledge of what was required, but their only other weapons were irrepressible enthusiasm and the mindset which enables a man to build a radio from a potato or a mast from a lamppost.
Had this been a business enterprise no bank would ever have lent the capital, for ranged against the dreamers was a whole battery of forces any one of which would have deterred more realistic people. For a start, neither Jill or Nick had any experience with a welder - and yet they were proposing to build a steel boat. Secondly, they seemed only to have enough money to buy a couple of masts and the sails. Worst of all, they had two kids and a new baby in tow - and no one with a young family ought to attempt anything more ambitious than the washing up. Regardless of these drawbacks, Nick and Jill went ahead.

"It'll only take a year and a half," said he, confidently.

Fifteen years down the line, Mollymawk is afloat and the family have cruised all over the Atlantic; but the boat is still not finished.
This is the tale of what went wrong and what went right. Packed full of advice about such things as ocean-worthy design and sail plans, it will also tell you how to operate a cutting torch, how to avoid a leaky stern-gland, how to pour your own rigging sockets, how to handle a ferocious gander, how to sandblast, how to weld in mid-Atlantic, how to amuse three young children in a cabin space the size of a phone booth… and much, much more besides.
"This thing will never be more than a rusting steel can."

- Xoë Schinas, aged 6, one year into the boatbuilding project.

"At last, the truth about steel boatbuilding."

- Nick Skeates, designer of the Wylo II



Product details

Authors Jill Dickin Schinas
Publisher Imperator Publishing
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 17.08.2013
 
EAN 9780956072221
ISBN 978-0-9560722-2-1
No. of pages 298
Dimensions 189 mm x 246 mm x 17 mm
Weight 581 g
Subject Guides > Sport > Water sport, sailing

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