{"product_id":"how-not-to-build-a-jill-dickin-schinas-9780956072221","title":"How Not to Build a Boat","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen their old GRP yacht was devastated by a Southern Ocean storm, Jill Schinas and her husband, Nick, resolved to build something stronger. Gaily - and without having researched the matter to the least degree - they threw themselves into the work of designing and constructing the ultimate, ocean-proof, eco-friendly, dream cruising yacht. On their side they had a wealth of sailing experience, which provided a perfect knowledge of what was required, but their only other weapons were irrepressible enthusiasm and the mindset which enables a man to build a radio from a potato or a mast from a lamppost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHad this been a business enterprise no bank would ever have lent the capital, for ranged against the dreamers was a whole battery of forces any one of which would have deterred more realistic people. For a start, neither Jill or Nick had any experience with a welder - and yet they were proposing to build a steel boat. Secondly, they seemed only to have enough money to buy a couple of masts and the sails. Worst of all, they had two kids and a new baby in tow - and no one with a young family ought to attempt anything more ambitious than the washing up. Regardless of these drawbacks, Nick and Jill went ahead.\u003cbr\u003e \"It'll only take a year and a half,\" said he, confidently.\u003cbr\u003e Fifteen years down the line, \u003cem\u003eMollymawk\u003c\/em\u003e is afloat and the family have cruised all over the Atlantic; but the boat is still not finished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the tale of what went wrong and what went right. Packed full of advice about such things as ocean-worthy design and sail plans, it will also tell you how to operate a cutting torch, how to avoid a leaky stern-gland, how to pour your own rigging sockets, how to handle a ferocious gander, how to sandblast, how to weld in mid-Atlantic, how to amuse three young children in a cabin space the size of a phone booth... and much, much more besides.\u003c\/p\u003e \"This thing will never be more than a rusting steel can.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- Xo  Schinas, aged 6, one year into the boatbuilding project. \"At last, the truth about steel boatbuilding.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- Nick Skeates, designer of the Wylo II \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jill Dickin Schinas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0956072224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780956072221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Imperator Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/17\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.62d","brand":"Jill Dickin Schinas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120451350783,"sku":"9780956072221","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a5a560bf-e196-4a23-b67a-7452da30f566.jpg?v=1687414389","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-not-to-build-a-jill-dickin-schinas-9780956072221","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}