Dix Dudley Dix 
Shaped by Wind & Wave: Musings of a Boat Designer [EPUB ebook] 

This e Book is a collection of random writings by a boat designer explaining boat design in layman’s terms, explanations of various boatbuilding methods, how to loft the lines of a boat, effects of decisions made about hull shape, how to turn the hull over and many other boating subjects that you will not find in other books about boat design. It includes a chapter on recommendations for sailing around the Cape of Good Hope as well as one recording the only circumnavigation ever done in an open boat.