The Encyclopedia of Yacht Designers

Ten years in the making, this superb encyclopedia will make a splendid addition to larger reference libraries and all special collections relating to maritime matters. There is no other recent volume in competition with Knight and MacNaughton's work. It is comprehensive in its definition of “yachts” and its coverage of international designers during the last 200 years.

The range of boats included in this work is generous in the extreme. We have everything from Clark Mills' Optimist and seven‐foot cat boats through racing powerboats and motor yachts to three‐mast schooners and Whitbread Round the World 77‐footers designed to take the...