Product Description

Here is a book as useful to boatowners as it is beautiful. Yacht Style provides a wealth of innovative solutions to questions of light, space, color, materials, access, and stowage in boats from small cruisers to megayachts, both power and sail..

One of today's most gifted nautical writers, Dan Spurr roams freely above and below decks, missing nothing, sometimes applauding, sometimes shaking his head. His lively and opinionated text is further enhanced by interviews with such luminaries as powerboat designer Tom Fexas, cruising sailboat designer Robert Perry, and yacht interior designer Blanche Bloomfield..

Carefully designed and crafted, Yacht Style is a book worthy of its subject--the boatowner's ultimate idea book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #863043 in Books
• Published on: 1997-04-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 308 pages

Review
``An exciting book. . .both beautiful and useful.'' (WoodenBoat )

Sailing
"Spur's book sparkles like a classic, well-appointed yacht in a marina full of indistinguisable production boats... This book reminds us of why we are all hopelessly addicted to this crazy passion called yachting."

WoodenBoat
"An exciting book... both beautiful and useful."

Customer Reviews

A beautiful display of yacht decoration and craftsmanship
This is a gem of book, more devoted to the art of designing beautiful details and accomodations in yachts, than to aspects of naval design. It deals mostly with relatively large sailing boats. Offers very interesting insights into what is appropriate in interior design and decoration of a sailing yacht and what is not, i.e. the type of textile designs used in furniture that would make you sick with movement while underway. Full of photos the book covers details in almost every area of the deck and accomodations of top-of-the-line yachts. An interesting and artful addition to a design and decoration library. Full of beautiful ideas. Well worth the price.

Needs Something
The book text to me is rather boring explaining the obvious in the wonderful pictures it does include. However, I feel the book could have made even more use of photographs. The book does have wonderful pictures, but really didn't leave me with any ideas I could use. My partially biased opinion is based on the fact that I was looking for remodeling ideas for powerboats, and this book does tend to focus more on sailing yachts. My boating library could do with or without this one.