With clean earlier editions of this classic on yacht design becoming rare it’s great to have a reprint from Lodestar, with forewords by both the late Ed Burnett and Ian Howlett (who prefaced the fourth edition in 1994). There is also a plans supplement and biography by THB’s late daughter Joan Jardine Brown. This edition has a great gallery of colour plates of THB yachts still sailing – including Sabrina, featured in CS. But you mainly buy this for the wisdom of a designer who, although amateur (he was an ophthalmologist by profession), was once hugely influential with his analysis of balance and is still relevant for his appreciation and description of handy, good-looking small cruising yachts. £20 DH
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