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title: "The Nature of Boats: Insights and Esoterica for the Nautically Obsessed"
brand: "dave gerr"
price: "A$74"
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# The Nature of Boats: Insights and Esoterica for the Nautically Obsessed

**Brand:** dave gerr
**Price:** A$74
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** The Nature of Boats: Insights and Esoterica for the Nautically Obsessed by dave gerr
- **How much does it cost?** A$74 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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The Nature of Boats: Insights and Esoterica for the Nautically Obsessed

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## Customer Reviews

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    Knowledge and Understanding that You Won't Get Anywhere Else
  

*by J***T on Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2015*

This written in a way that is like advice for the guy the next slip over.  Dave Gerr a naval architect and while some of the knowledge is technical, it is presented in an easy to understand format and personal.  One of the great strengths of the book is most chapters are a story, relating some personal experience, problems encountered and how he solved or attempted to solve them.  Each chapter is short and it's lesson will not bore you.The chapters are un-related so each stands on it's own; for that reason alone it is hard to review the Nature of Boats.  I do know that every night I picked it up and read a chapter or three and found my knowledge expanded in a light-hearted way.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    For me - a treasure trove
  

*by S***T on Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2009*

I have always had a fondness for boats. My every attempt to learn more about them was unsatisfying. Magazines, sales literature, or attending boat shows failed to supply the information I yearned to know. I wanted to understand boats, not just know about them.Dave Kerr gets to the heart of the matter in this volume. While not containing all one might want to know about why certain boats function they way they do, how they are built, and what the individual reader should be looking for in selecting or designing a boat, this book goes a long way, and makes it easy to understand what the next step would be in pursuing a particular boat subject-matter more thorougly.Kerr's prose is eminently readable - he even includes several semi-fictional antecdotes to bread up the tedium of boat-facts.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Unsinkable
  

*by P***E on Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2021*

If you're thinking about building a boat or your generally interested in boats this is a great resource.

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*Last updated: 2026-02-01*