The Architect's Apprentice: The Story of the Design and Construction of a Wooden Sailboat
- ISBN-10
- 0713650109
- ISBN-13
- 9780713650105
- Category
- Boatbuilding
- Pages
- 186
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Seafarer Books
- Author
- Gary M. Schwarzman
Description
With clarity, warmth and humour, Schwarzman shows the beauty of a naval architect's drawings, and how the practical challenge of combining function, philosophy and aesthetics turns a plan into a boat.
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