William Garden Design Book
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William garden design book. Publishing page home page. What people are saying write a review. Bill garden s work is an inspiration to succeeding generations of yacht designers.
Garden s writing style is just as far ranging and eclectic as his boats whimsical and informative light hearted yet solidly grounded serious thought provoking and thoroughly engaging. Dozens of detailed drawings plus delightful descriptions and reminiscences of the boats and the people who loved them the text accompanying each design centers on the background of each boat rather than on a technical study. William garden was a self confessed recluse who lived and worked in british columbia.
Jelly bean another tabloid cruiser. Each essay is as different as the boat it describes sometimes explaining a detail of the building process the origins of a design the individuals involved or the. His island workshop toad s landing was a haven of boat design and boatbuilding.
This is a book you will return to over and over again and probably wear out completely 328 pages. Diane a tabloid cruiser. The original edition of yacht designs was.
From inside the book. Garden s career as both a yacht designer and builder spanned well over six decades and untold hundreds of boats.