books by Ferenc Mate     books:       The Finely Fitted Yacht: The Boat Improvement Manual, Volumes 1 and 23 reviews Ferenc Mate W. W. Norton & Company, 1994 Cruisers Must Have! Mate's profusely illustrated volume will help you fit out your blue water cruiser to suit your needs. Interspersed with his unique humor are plans for hundreds of projects from major to mundane. If you are building or refitting a sailing yacht, you must read this essential reference. If you've purchased a finished boat this book will help you fix the armchair-sailor design flaws too often ...             The World's Best Sailboats: A Survey8 reviews Ferenc Mate Albatross, 1995 This book would be cheap at twice the price! This is an absolutely gorgeous book. The photography is awesome! It is a "dreambook." You would not look through it in order to choose a boat. Most of them would only be available as used boats in any case. You buy this book for your coffee table, because you love fine, beautiful yachts! Ferenc Mate has done a remarkable job, bringing together some of the finest sailing yachts, designed ...             Best Boats to Build or Buy3 reviews Ferenc Mate Albatross, 2002 Best Boats to Build or Buy I would never build a sailboat. It would take too much time. But, this book makes me want to change my mind. At the very least, it give interesting insight into journeyman boatbuilding. I used to check this book out of the library about twice a year - whenever I'd get an irresistable urge to dream about sailing away into the sunset. I don't buy very many new books but I finally decided to just ...             The Seven Seas 2009: The Sailor's Calendar1 review Albatross, 2008 Great Sailing Pictures These calendars have beautiful pictures of sailboats in exotic locations and on the page where the calendar grid is there is a nautical chart visible behind the grid. Apparently "sailing people" are very fond of charts and since my husband grew up on a sailboat he just loves these calendars both for the sailboat pictures and for the charts. I have purchased one of these calendars every year ...             A Reasonable Life: Toward a Simpler, Secure, More Humane Existence34 reviews Ferenc Mate W. W. Norton & Company, 2000 WE NEED THIS BOOK MORE NOW THAN EVER Today, the day after the election, I took this book off the shelf to read again. This country might be on fast slide down to disaster and I want to be reminded about what I can do to live a reasonable life. There is no stopping the slide now, it's out of control as proven by the election outcome. We have to hope to live through it. I love this book even though I know everyone can't move to the ...             Ghost Sea: A Novel8 reviews Ferenc Mate Albatross, 2007 Read This Book Outloud! Ghost Sea is a great book just waiting to be read aloud. The chapters are a perfect length for oral presentation. The epitome of traditional storytelling, this book combines the sea tale, love story and ghost story with Pacific Northwest Native American history.             A New England Autumn Ferenc Mate Albatross, 2007 "The glory of the region in brilliant photography...achingly beautiful."? Providence Sunday Journal This magnificent collection of photographs is a journey through back roads and hidden corners of America's most idyllic and beloved region. Each scene, suffused with color and light, brings a moment of private discovery and awakens a sense of home.             The Hills of Tuscany46 reviews Ferenc Mate Delta, 1999 A TUSCANY BOTH SERENE AND SEDUCTIVE Reading "The Hills of Tuscany", Ferenc Mate's exuberant, joyful ode to his adopted country, makes one eager to join that expatriate band. After occupying a series of dwellings a "houseboat, sailboat, mountain cabin, that garage in Laguna Beach, the attic in Paris, the cubbyhole in New York, and a whatsit in the Bahamas," the Hungarian-born Mate and his artist wife, Candace, deemed it time for a ...             The World's Best Sailboats, Volume 22 reviews Ferenc Mate Albatross, 2003 Fabulous Visual Feast Mate' and his talented band of photographers take you into a world where the average sailor seldom ventures, on the decks and into the saloons of the finest yachts built by craftsmen from around the globe. A valuable addition to Volume I, fit for sailors and wannabees alike. A visual feast to take you through the cold winter evenings 'til the crack of a crisp sail is upon us come spring, if she ...             A Vineyard in Tuscany: A Wine Lover's Dream31 reviews Ferenc Mate Albatross, 2008 PARADISE REGAINED I read the "criticisms" on this board and do not share them. This was not intended as a treatise on vine growing and wine making but a deeply personal account of one family's quest for achieving a dream -- told with wonderful writing style, transporting the reader into the magical and unique world of discovery, illumination, and appreciation of one of God's gifts -- Tuscany. Try to imagine ...             From A Bare Hull: How To Build A Sailboat5 reviews Ferenc Mate W. W. Norton & Company, 2000 An outstanding guide to building a boat This is a great book. Ferenc Mate has a very enaging style of writing, and he weaves nuts and bolts information and construction techniques into an excellent reference book. He has strong opinions on most matters, and lets the reader know why he believes things should be done a certain way. I found the book very useful not only for boatbuilding reference, but also as a guide to good ...              search for books autumn, boats, build, calendar, dream, england, existence, finely, fitted, ghost, hills, humane, improvement, lover, manual, novel, reasonable, sailboat, sailboats, sailor, secure, seven, simpler, survey, toward, tuscany, vineyard, volume, volumes, yacht books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: Richard Strauss: Klavierwerke & Transkriptionen we recommend PARADISE REGAINED leave a comment home  impressum - about us