Performance by Design: Hydrodynamics for High-Speed Vessels

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Professional engineering text, to be used as a reference in my own practice. Written by a friend of mine who died a few years ago.I was especially pleased to find that he had autographed the book on the inside cover!

DLB is a titan in the Naval Architecture industry. If only he'd gotten somebody to proof-read this book before it was published. Riddled with embarrassing spelling and grammar errors, and some of the paragraphs are unintelligible. A bit hard to follow, even for a degree-level Naval Architect. Otherwise good, makes some very good points. Definitely better-suited for the undergraduate architect, useful as a reference book for design figures.

Excellent text book on planing craft. If you are a naval architect that has been classically trained on displacement ships and now have a need to work on planing boats, then this is the place to start!

Donald Blount is a living legend in the marine industry and he explains his thought process and design techniques in great detail. Anyone interested in naval architecture and yacht design will want to add this to their library.

Well written, complete, clear. Full of useful information for the practicing naval architect.

Great and very useful book.

Very detailed. Get ready for some calculus.

Well worth the money. Beware the book is in imperial units

Excellent book. Good quality paper and printing.

Great book, by a Great Designer.