INTRODUCTION TO YACHT DESIGN
IAN NICHOLSON
always approach these books with a mixture of excitement and trepidation; the former because I am fascinated by yacht design, the latter because I fear, once again, I won’t understand it. This time, renewed by a recent victory against prismatic coefficient (I now understand it), I dived in confidently. And what a joy it was to see that the very first page details five golden rules of aesthetics. These are: that most lines should be curves; most of those curves should alter their curvature throughout their length; no part, however short, of the sheer may be flat; the stem and stern should not rake at the same angle, or have the same height; and that lines which are in the same area of the structure above
