The Twelve Metre Yacht: Its Evolution and Design, 1906-1987 |
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Earliest Days of the Twelves 19061921 | 13 |
America joins in 19221939 | 22 |
Copyright | |
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Alan Payne Alfred Mylne allowed alloy aluminium America's Cup American angle Australia Australia II ballast Bermudian rig boat speed Britton Chance cabin Camper & Nicholson cent certificate challenge cockpit construction Courageous covering board crew deck displacement drag efficiency fitted fore and aft forestay freeboard genoa girth difference Gretel Gretel II halyard headsail heel helmsman Hood hull hydraulic increased International Rule Intrepid Kevlar knots light weather lighter Lloyd's Register load luff mainsail mast match racing materials maximum Measurement Instruction metres minimum Minneford Yacht Yard Mylne Nicholson Ltd normal Olin Stephens performance Perth problem programme reduced rudder runner sail area sailmaker scantlings sheet spar Sparkman & Stephens stability structure syndicates tack tank testing techniques thickness trials trim tab trimmers Twelve Twelve-Metre waterline length weight William Fife winches windward wing keel Yacht Racing Yacht Yard Inc Yachtsman