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Sailboat Projects : Clever Ideas and How to Make Them - For a Pittance

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Clarence Jones is a writer, inventor, tinkerer, photographer, sailor. He was born in the middle of the Great Depression. When something broke, you fixed it. There was no money for a repair man. He learned as a youngster how to design and make things that worked just as well as those in the store that cost a lot. His inventive creativity was a great asset in his careers as an award-winning newspaper and television reporter. One of the biggest challenges was often figuring out how to hide a camera or a recording device that would capture the evidence to prove his target's guilt. So when he became a sailor in mid-life, it was just natural for him to design gadgets that made his boat work better. The impetus for some of his projects would be a magazine article about a new device for sailboats. Within a day or so, Clarence would have a working prototype that would do the same thing. For a tiny fraction of what the new gadget cost. This book is a collection of those projects, many of them first published in sailing magazines. The guidelines for his sailboat projects - and the writing about them - have always been: -Simplicity -Ease of assembly -Minimal cost -Lots of pictures -Where to get the materials That's what this book is all about.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781481924160
  • ISBN-10: 1481924168
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publish Date: January 2013
  • Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.51 x 0.29 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.36 pounds
  • Page Count: 134

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