Good Sailboat Designs

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If you've been doing a little boat dreaming, this book by Mike O'Brien might just help you find your focus. Good Sailboat Designs is a compilation of some of Mike's favorites for camp-cruising, daysailing, and weekenders, culled from Boat Design Quarterly which he published from 1991 to 2019.

Mike's design commentaries are well worth the read as you'll not only learn... you'll enjoy.

Table of Contents:

Jenny Wren - A timeless 22' yawl - by Charles G. Davis

Compass Harbor - An 8'8" glued-lapstrake pram - by John Brooks

The Catboat - A 16' daysailer/weekender - by Phil Bolger

Row/Sail Skiff - A 15' strip-composite double-ender - by Paul Gartside

Nomans Landers - Far & Away and the Merlin Yawl,
two 17' double-ended beach cruisers - by J. Beetle, Tom Jackson, and Kees Prince

Mist - A 22' plywood cruising sloop - by Karl Stambaugh

Valgerda - An 18'7" Norwegian Hardangersjekte - by William and John Atkin

Double-ended Sloop - A trailerable 22'6" weekender - by Paul Gartside

Nord Koster - An elegant 16' canoe yawl - by Phil Bolger

Catboat - A pleasant 17'1" daysailer/cruiser - by Charles Wittholz

Lit'l Coot - A 17'11" stitch-and-glue motorsailer - by Sam Devlin

Sailing Skiff 15* - A good 15' 4" plywood daysailer - by Karl Stambaugh

Chebacco - A striking 19' 8" daysailer/weekender - by Phil Bolger

Coastal Cruiser - Handsome 22' 6" faering for sail and oar - by John C. Harris

Whilly Boat* - A 14'6" double-ended lapstrake daysailer - by Iain Oughtred

Small Gaff Sloop - A trailerable 16' pocket cruiser - by Paul Gartside

Fast Beach Cruiser - A 22' double-ended light sharpie - by Mike O'Brien

Dovekie - A 21' 5" shoal-draft beach-cruiser - by Phil Bolger

Shore Liner* - A 24' shoal-draft cruising sloop - by William and John Atkin

Catbird 18 - A cat-ketch of extreme shoal draft - by Karl Stambaugh

Buzzards Bay Sloop - An 18' 8" lapstrake gaff-sloop - by Pete Culler

Nymph and Rubens Nymph - Two 8' plywood prams for oar and sail - by Phil Bolger

Heathen - A striking 18' double-ended cutter - by Paul Gartside

Sea Bright Skiffs - Two surf boats (23' 9" and 15' 4") - by Howard Chapelle and Reuel Parker

Calico Jack* - A 24' Chesapeake Bay skipjack - by Joe Gregory

Gunkholer - A 22' shoal-draft cruising skiff - by Jay Benford

Shearwater* - A 16' pulling boat with auxiliary sail - by Joel White

Monhegan - An elegant 18' Friendship sloop - by Phil Bolger

MacGregor* - A glued-lapstrake sailing canoe - by Iain Oughtred

How to Read Hull Lines

112 pp., softcover
8.5 x 11" format

* plans available from The WoodenBoat Store                               

                         Praise for Good Sailboat Designs:

It’s the best explanation [of hull lines] that I’ve ever read. O’Brien’s writing reflects a deep understanding of boats and the joy they give to him.

– Dennis Caprio, former editor of Small Boat Journal and senior editor at Yachting

Mike O'Brien makes boats, each and every one he writes about, indelible for me. You can’t find drawings like these, and become exposed to Mike’s encyclo-practic grasp of boats, anywhere better than in his very own publication.

– Jim Brown, multihull designer and author

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