[FREE] Boats, Boffins and Bowlines: The Stories of Sailing Inventors and Innovations
☆ George Drower ☆
| #6371420 in Books | The History Press | 2005-07-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.76 x.79 x6.74l,1.28 | File Name: 075093364X | 240 pages |
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Good book to read about boating|By Baggy|Great for boating enthusiasts, fun and informative. Interesting information about sailing. Good to know some one made the effort to write this.||
"An informative and entertaining tribute to sailing's unsung heroes and heroines." —Maritime Journal
Which woman made the first solo transatlantic crossing? Who saved thousands of lives with the invention of navigation lights? What is the story behind the invention of the compass? Who was Francis Beaufort and how did he come to devise the Beaufort wind scale, still used to this day? Why did William Petty invent the catamaran (in 1662)? Many of us know the story of modern sailing pioneers - Dame Ellen MacArthur and Francis Chichester, Claire Francis and the challen... [PDF.uh44] Boats, Boffins and Bowlines: The Stories of Sailing Inventors and Innovations Rating: 3.83 (512 Votes)
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