Pond Yachts: How to Build & Sail Them

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This is beautifully illustrated in watercolors, and shows you a bunch of neat detail items to make your model building all the easier and more pleasurable.

Table of Contents:

 

  • Introduction
  • Getting a Perspective
  • The Rule and why have a Rule
  • Designing to fit the Rule: ideas for shape, aesthetics, of hull design, displacement ,and other practical matters.
  • Materials needed
  • Carving the hull
  • Making and fixing the keel
  • Making a rudder
  • Paint and Finishes for hull, keel, rudder, mast, etc.
  • The rig
  • Sailmaking
  • Boat stands
  • Going for a sail
  • Living with a pond model
  • Other boats to build
  • Appendices: Glossary, Materials, Miscellaneous Helps
  • by M. de Lesseps

    86 pp., hidden wire-o-binding, softcover

  • Customer Reviews

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    Dana Steadman
    Pond Yachts How to Build Them Review

    This a helpful book very informative and clear language about the principals of design and construction.

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    Dennis Landon
    building a pond yacht

    very handy for my project

    B
    Bruce Blonde
    simplistic

    I was expecting the information to be a little more technical

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