Alfred Mylne The Leading Yacht Designer

1896-1920

Ian Nicolson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2015
Amberley Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4456-4633-6 (ISBN)

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Beautiful boats last a long time, but ugly ones die young. That is one reason why there are so many Alfred Mylne designed yachts still sailing, even though some of them are well over 100 years old. It was in 1896 that Alfred Mylne, at the age of twenty-four, set up his yacht design office in Glasgow and the company is now one of the oldest British yacht design firms still in existence. Boat design features which are widely believed to be quite new are found in early Mylne designs and between 1896 and 1920 Mylne designed several beautiful, race-winning yachts. Alfred Mylne yachts still turn heads today, even in San Tropez or Antigua.

In this book, Ian Nicolson uses original plans from the archives of Alfred Mylne to demonstrate the beauty of the earliest Mylne yacht designs and to tell the story of Alfred Mylne the man.

Ian Nicolson joined Alfred Mylne the Second as a full design partner at the age of 31. These two very different personalities worked together for 20 years to produce a variety of craft. At the same time, Nicolson set up a boat survey organisation which became the most successful in Scotland, so that he went all over the world doing surveys. Ian has had 23 books published and many hundreds of technical articles. He has had his own magazine column since 1955.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.6.2015
Zusatzinfo	90 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Chalford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	246 x 168 mm
Gewicht	524 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe
Themenwelt	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10	1-4456-4633-1 / 1445646331
ISBN-13	978-1-4456-4633-6 / 9781445646336
Zustand	Neuware