Moscow Sailing Library

Happy New Year to all sailing yacht enthusiast. My first find of this year, on the shelf in the Berlin bookstore! Ahoy!

Segelyachten damals und heute
by Franco Giorgetti

The wind blows the sails, the spray splashes over the boat walls, the sun glitters on the bridge and the bow glides silently through the waves. Yachting, unforgettable experience and adventure at the same time, because the boat in conjunction with the often unpredictable element of water must prove itself. The reader experiences Yachting in its perfection with this picture book in a class of its own. From the competition of the royal yachts in London around 1600 to the technological sophistication of the Americas Cup of the present, the development of this fascinating sport is documented.

Paperback
Publisher: White Star Verlag
Language: German
ISBN-10: 3867260400
ISBN-13: 978-3867260404

Alfred Mylne The Leading Yacht Designer: Volume 1 1896-1920 – June 15, 2015
by Ian Nicolson

Beautiful boats last a long time, but ugly ones die young. That is one reason why there are so many Alfred Mylne designed yachts still sailing, even though some of them are well over 100 years old. It was in 1896 that Alfred Mylne, at the age of twenty-four, set up his yacht design office in Glasgow and the company is now one of the oldest British yacht design firms still in existence. Boat design features which are widely believed to be quite new are found in early Mylne designs and between 1896 and 1920 Mylne designed several beautiful, race-winning yachts. Alfred Mylne yachts still turn heads today, even in San Tropez or Antigua. In this book, Ian Nicolson uses original plans from the archives of Alfred Mylne to demonstrate the beauty of the earliest Mylne yacht designs and to tell the story of Alfred Mylne the man.

Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Amberley Publishing (June 15, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1445646331
ISBN-13: 978-1445646336
Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 0.6 x 6.6 inches

Wooden Boat. WoodenBoat. The Magazine for Wooden Boat Owners, Builders, and Designers. January February 1995. Number 122. Sailing the Schooner BRILLIANT; Catamaran Designer james Wharram; Build a Simple Plywood Garvey; Boats of the Yangtze River. Single Issue Magazine – 1995
by WOODENBOAT MAGAZINE.