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The trouble with old boats /
Drawn from the best of Adrian Morgan's entertaining columns musing on the world of traditional boats and the joys of building, sailing and working on them, here is his long-awaited bunkside read. Billed as a 'zen and the art of wooden boatbuilding', it will resonate with classic boat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Adlard Coles Nautical,
2008.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover ""; ""Contents ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Foreword by Tom Cunliffe""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Wood : A Hopeless Addiction""; ""Wishful thoughts""; ""Go north young man""; ""Simplicate, its simpler""; ""Bloody weather""; ""The value of vessels""; ""The power of words""; ""Curiouser and curiouser""; ""When an �it� becomes a �she�""; ""The hissing of Moonbeam""; ""Advice? No, therapy""; ""Classic bling""; ""Eye of the beholder""; ""Pyramids of necessity""; ""2 �A Fragile and Unrewarding Occupation�""; ""A drop of the red stuff""; ""Flat pack classics""; ""Only smells remain""
- ""Fragile and unrewarding""""My first boat""; ""Downshifting""; ""Boats, buttocks and bums""; ""Burning boats""; ""Building by numbers""; ""Plywood phooey""; ""Of boats, backs and ballerinas""; ""*!!@*!!#""; ""The beauty of asymmetry""; ""Boatbuilding is cool, or rather, cold""; ""�A tenner and she�s yours ... �""; ""3 The Fury of Inanimate Objects""; ""£23,000 for a rowing boat?""; ""Familiarity leads to lost fingers""; ""The fury of inanimate objects""; ""Tom�s rules of thumb""; ""Professionally speaking ... ""; ""Cast off your shackles""; ""4 Here be Dragons""
- ""Racing? Heaven forfend""""Sheep-shape""; ""Catch �em young""; ""Wet, wet, wet""; ""Ssshailing (hic)""; ""Sublime or ridiculous?""; ""Highland yacht maintenance""; ""Swimming? No fear""; ""5 Of Beards, Boats and Admiral Beaufort""; ""Blowing up Britannia""; ""Kiss me Hardy""; ""Gale? What gale?""; ""The Ranting Fifties""; ""Dang""; ""JDS remembered""; ""Shared heritage""; ""Old men and the sea""; ""Boatyard tyrants""; ""And finally ... ""