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Title: A Century of Outboard Racing by Kevin Desmond ISBN: 0-7603-1047-5 Publisher: MBI Publishing Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: One fo the few books on outboard racing!
Comment: Positive: for the most part accurate and complete. Lots of European racing, nice pictures, heavy coverage of 80's OPC racing. All in all very few errors. Charlie Strang was one of the main references.
Negative: Some photo captions are switched, some are just plain wrong, some photos are poor quality scans, some are placed for book layout and are out of sequence to the text, some have been altered to suit the text. Book was originally written in French, the translation suffers at some points. No coverage of small boat racing after 1960...no Quincy Loopers, no Crescent CSSH, no modern König, Yamato, Arens, Rossi alky stuff. A few errors due to poor research. Some omissions of motors included in Desomnd's earlier books.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good History
Comment: Kevin Desmond has done well to begin and end his history of outboards with electrics motors.
While Desmond focuses on exploding engines, as he must to be historically accurate, he begins with Gustave Trouve on the Seine River in Paris in 1880.
Trove's 11-pound motor was placed in a boat 18 feet long. He achieved a speed of 6.7 mph. This was the first outboard motor of any kind.
Toward the end of the book, Desmond writes "At the very beginning, "the world's first outboard was electric...With increasing concerns for the environment, a small and eccentric number of people have thought the impossible - that one future solution for the outboard sport would be to run again battery-electric motors."
Desmond's attractive book is a well-written and well-researched history. It would be a valuable addition to any nautical library
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Title: The Vintage Culture of Outboard Racing by Peter Hunn ISBN: 1928862063 Publisher: Devereux Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Golden Age of the Racing Outboard by Peter Hunn ISBN: 0964007096 Publisher: Devereux Books Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Beautiful Outboards by Peter Hunn ISBN: 1928862047 Publisher: Devereux Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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Title: The Old Outboard Book by Peter Hunn ISBN: 0071383093 Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 16 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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