Synopses & Reviews
Review
``Beebe's visionary research and design philosophy are still highly regarded. . .Leishmann, an expert on modern long-range power cruising, offers practical, updated advice.
Review
``[A] `must own,' for anyone who dreams of, or plans, any long-distance powerboating, inland and off-shore. Anyone who is thinking motor cruise should read it three times.
About the Author
Captain Robert P. Beebe was a boy in the Philippines when his father gave him his first boat, a native canoe. Boats and ships remained at the core of his life. His thirty-year career in the U.S. Navy spanned two wars. Between tours of duty he studied naval architecture, designed boats, and wrote many articles for boating magazines. After World War II he became interested in ocean-going motorboats. Years of research led to Passagemaker and her voyage three-quarters of the way around the world--and ultimately, to this book.James F. Leishman is an experienced ocean voyager in his own right. His firm, Pacific Asian Enterprises, builds some of the finest long-distance voyaging craft--power or sail--available anywhere.
Table of Contents
Historical Background of Power Voyaging.Evolving the Passagemaking Concept.Passagemaker: Designing, Building, and Testing.The Philosophy of Voyaging Under Power.Technicalities of Seagoing Motorboats.Stabilizing Against Rolling.A New Generation of Passagemakers.Today's Designers.The Economy Passagemaker.Twenty Years with Mona Mona.Voyage Planning.Inland Planning.Cruising in Europe.Round-the-World Passagemaking.Electronic Aids to Voyaging.Watch Standing.The Long Range Galley.Operating a Seagoing Motorboat.