Re: [bolger] Digest Number 3169

You may be thinking of "Upgrading the Cruising Sailboat" by Daniel Spurr, Illustrated by Bruce Bingham, 1983, Seven Seas Press, Newport, RI ISBN 0-915160-57-9

Yes, the cat is there, too.

Allan
In the hills.

> 3a. Arg! Unknown book help.
> Posted by: "Bill"kingw@...trimaran
> Date: Fri Feb 2, 2007 2:29 pm ((PST))
>
> Can someone please help me remember the name and author of a book I
> first heard about on this list, probably during the summer of 2004?
> Here is what I recall:
> It's a book full of black-line illustrations (drawings) with captions
> and bubbles of text. Each page details a different improvement or
> modification for a small sail boat (such as different ways to hang a
> table in a small boat, ways to mount a compass). The book is not
> about building a boat, only improving boats. Most of the pictures
> have a drawing of a cat in them (the author's cat); chasing a mouse,
> playing with a sheet, etc. The book is out of print and published
> around 1981.
> I thought the title was something like "practical sailor, or
> self-reliant sailor" but searches on these titles show other books.
>
> Can someone throw me a bone, please? I'm going crazy here...
>
> Bill, in Ohio
>