Elements of Yacht Design: The Original Edition of the Classic Book on Yacht Design

"This book is intended to be a practical and concise presentation of some of the operations involved in designing yachts of all types. Cumbersome and impractical methods which are so often found in more pretentious works on naval architecture have been avoided. Those presented have been in everyday use by the author." Thus wrote Norman L. Skene in the preface to the fifth edition of Elements of Yacht Design.

Skene's is one of the most famous books on yacht design ever written. First publishe...