Designed to Win - Layouts for Racing Boats

Designed to Win by Roger Marshall (ISBN:0393032299) Published WW Norton, NY. 1979. Large format hardcover with dustjacket in very good condition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 191 pages including index. B/W photos, plans, and drawings. Foreword by Roderick Stephens.

Lavishly illustrated with plans from many of the world's top designers, including Sparkman and Stephens, Ron Holland, German Ferers and Scott Kaufman, together with detail from some of the author's own designs.

The aim of this book is to give racing boat owners the practical information needed to analyse and improve their own deck layouts, or at least to tell a boatyard exactly what they want in way of improvements.