power cruising author

[MADOC1]

a number of years a remember a book by an author who advocated using power cruisers and maybe motor sailors instead of sailboats, even for long journeys. i thought i had a copy of the book, but now can't find it and do not remember its name or the authors name. so i thought i would ask the collective library mind here if anyone knows who i could be thinking about. thx

jim

[koederfischgriller]

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George Buehler?

[rbgarr]

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Robert P. Beebe's "Voyaging Under Power" and perhaps Steve and Linda Dashew's Beowulf Publishing series.

[skaraborgcraft]

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Either Beebs "Voyaging under power" or Beuhlers "The troller yacht" . Beebs is a bit more informative, but Georges book kind of pushed his own designs (nothing wrong with that), depite a lot of people not liking his boats, they are out there voyaging both power and sail.

[MADOC1]

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thx everyone. i believe it is "voyaging under power". now i need to check amazon for a copy since i can't find mine.

jim

[TR]

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Georges book kind of pushed his own designs (nothing wrong with that),

Beebe's book also pushed his designs, as did the third edition of Voyaging Under Power by James Leishman (Nordhavn). It's more noticeable from Buehler because he does not acknowledge the existence of other designer's/builders and any prior works.

[cstevens]

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^^^ True in both cases but at least in the first edition of Beebe's book there is a great review of boats from other designers including Alden, Monk (Skookum Maru is featured), Garden, Benford, Farmer, McInnis and others. Not sure if that survived to later editions.