Sailboat Projects : Clever Ideas and How to Make Them - for a Pittance, Paper...
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Sailboat Projects : Clever Ideas and How to Make Them - for a Pittance, Paper.... Sailboat Projects : Clever Ideas and How to Make Them - for a Pittance, Paperback by Jones, Clarence, ISBN 1481924168, ISBN-13 9781481924160, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 learned as a youngster how to design and make things that worked just as well as those in the store that cost a 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 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 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 materialsThat's what this book is all about.
