By Kevin Desmond, translation by Gérald Guetat
Kevin DESMOND was the keeper of the boating museums of Basildon, Great Britain, and of Bordeaux, France. After the publication of the remarkable book "Power Boat Speed" dedicated to the story of the motorboating race, he today gives us the story of racing speedboats.
A unique document.
Original version in French.
Do you know that the first speedboat motor was invented by a french man in 1880 ? Have you ever seen hundreds of boats sailing down the Hudson river to New-York during a rash marathon in the 30's ?
For more than a century, the engineers and the pilots have improved mechanical wonders, always more powerful. Today, their achievement allows millions of yachtsmen to have more reliable motors. Thanks to encyclopedic knowledge and fascinating documents, Kevin DESMOND relates, with a sustained rhythm, one hundred years of an extraordinary story full of human relationships, sports and technics.
Both a captivating story and a reference book well illustrated, this book reveals the aspects of an unknown universe. Without this book, one of a kind, the interest for classic yachting cannnot be satisfied.
Un siècle de hors-bord, Courses et records.
A book of 192 pages, format 23,5 x 28 cm,
printed on enamel, semimat, 300 color and black and white pictures .
Cloth boards with headband, under four-color pictorial jacket
ISBN 2-85868-290-9 - Ref : VVM00102
Price : 52,60
