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Description for Float Your Boat!
Whether you are an inquisitive landlubber who has never set foot in a boat, a casual weekend sailor, or an old salt who lives for the sea, Float Your Boat! is an accessible guide to the physics of sailing. Num Pages: 280 pages, 111, 18 black & white line drawings, 93 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: WGG; WSSN3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 600.
An estimated 4.1 million people in the United States participate in recreational sailing. Yet the large library of sailing literature leaves many of them high and dry. On one side are technical guides for America's Cup boat-builders; on the other, simplistic books for weekend sailors with little interest in science. In Float Your Boat! professional and amateur boaters alike will find intelligent and understandable answers to such questions as: What were the key innovations that made sailboats more efficient? How do you increase the speed of a boat? How do sailboats travel into the wind? Why are so many ... Read more
An estimated 4.1 million people in the United States participate in recreational sailing. Yet the large library of sailing literature leaves many of them high and dry. On one side are technical guides for America's Cup boat-builders; on the other, simplistic books for weekend sailors with little interest in science. In Float Your Boat! professional and amateur boaters alike will find intelligent and understandable answers to such questions as: What were the key innovations that made sailboats more efficient? How do you increase the speed of a boat? How do sailboats travel into the wind? Why are so many ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801890093
SKU
V9780801890093
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-50
About Mark Denny
After earning a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Edinburgh University, Mark Denny pursued research at Oxford University from 1981 to 1984, then moved into a career in industry. He is the author of Ingenium: Five Machines That Changed the World and Blip, Ping, and Buzz: Making Sense of Radar and Sonar, both published by Johns Hopkins. Denny is ... Read more
Reviews for Float Your Boat!
Intelligent and understandable explanations of the physics of sailing... If you want to sound smart the next time you try explaining sailing to someone, read this book! Latitudes & Attitudes Armed with a PhD in physics, Denny fills a gap by addressing the evolution of this ancient means of transportation and the science that has affected its development... this book ... Read more