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Building Small Boats

Author : Greg Rössel

Publisher : WoodenBoat Books

Page : 300 pages

File Size : 26,88 MB

Release : 1998

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 9780937822500

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Book Description

Greg Rossel grew up cruising the waters of New York Harbor and spending time in the boatyards on the south shore of Staten Island where economics (more than anything else) made wooden boats the craft of choice. He makes his home in Maine where he specializes in the construction and repair of small wooden boats, as well as writing for several publications. Greg has been an instructor at WoodenBoat School in Maine since the mid-1980's, teaching lofting, skiff building, and the "Fundamentals of Boatbuilding".



How to Build Wooden Boats

Author : Edwin Monk

Publisher : Courier Corporation

Page : 95 pages

File Size : 31,24 MB

Release : 2012-08-02

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 0486156230

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Book Description

Clear concise manual for amateurs offers detailed illustrated instructions for building 16 basic wooden craft — rowboats, sailboats, outboards, runabouts, hydroplane, more. 15 halftones. 49 line illustrations.



How to Build a Wooden Boat

Author : David C. McIntosh

Publisher : WoodenBoat Books

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 35,7 MB

Release : 1988-03

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 9780937822104

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Book Description

David C. "Bud" McIntosh was a designer, builder, and sailor of large and small wooden cruising boats for more than 50 years, and wrote about it for over 10 of those years. He made his home on New Hampshire's Piscataqua River, where he was teacher and friend to both amateur and professional boatbuilders.



Boatbuilding

Author : Howard Irving Chapelle

Publisher : W. W. Norton

Page : 632 pages

File Size : 19,46 MB

Release : 1941

Category : Science

ISBN :

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Book Description

This book serves as a workshop handbook; giving detailed instructions on how to go about each part of a job building a boat and its proper sequence, as well as what must be looked forward to, while performing a given operation. The advantages and disadvantages of each type of construction suitable for amateurs will be described.



Building Classic Small Craft

Author : John Gardner

Publisher : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 10,80 MB

Release : 2003-09-02

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 9780071427975

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Book Description

"John Gardner's work has engaged and inspired more individuals connected with traditional small craft than will ever be counted."--WoodenBoat magazine "Deserves an honored place on the library shelf."--National Fisherman "Poses clear and impassioned means to go from the armchair to the open water via your own boat shop."--Sea History This big, handsome legacy volume contains all the plans, measurements, and directions needed to build any of 47 beautiful small boats for oar, sail, or motor.



Boatbuilding for Beginners (and Beyond)

Author : Jim Michalak

Publisher :

Page : 175 pages

File Size : 23,47 MB

Release : 2002-04

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 9781891369292

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Book Description

The ultimate book for anyone who has dreamed of building a boat.



Building Catherine

Author : Richard Kolin

Publisher : WoodenBoat Books

Page : 118 pages

File Size : 30,34 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 9780937822623

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Book Description

Richard Kolin has been building boats for 25 years. He has designed and built skiffs for both plywood and plank construction.



Building Strip-Planked Boats

Author : Nick Schade

Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional

Page : 289 pages

File Size : 12,23 MB

Release : 2008-11-14

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 0071643370

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Book Description

The first comprehensive book on stripbuilding almost any type of small boat Strip-planking is a popular method of amateur boat construction, but until now there has never been a book that showed how to use it for more than one type of boat. Author Nick Schade presents complete plans for three boats of different types (canoe, kayak, and a dinghy) and shows you step-by-step how to build them. Written for all amateur builders, the book covers materials, tools, and safety issues.



10 Wooden Boats You Can Build

Author : Peter Spectre

Publisher : WoodenBoat Books

Page : 212 pages

File Size : 41,49 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 9780937822340

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Book Description

The beauty of this book is that the construction bugs have already been worked out of the designs. Plans, step-by-step instructions, material lists photographs and detailed diagrams.



Stitch-and-Glue Boatbuilding

Author : Chris Kulczycki

Publisher : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 28,80 MB

Release : 2005-07-08

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 9780071440936

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Book Description

In Stitch-and-Glue Boatbuilding, one of the leading practitioners and teachers of the craft assembles the definitive how-to manual for the most popular method of amateur boatbuilding today. Enlivened with tales of boat shop mishaps and designs gone bad that entertain as they instruct, this invaluable book includes full plans and assembly instructions for nine boats--seven kayaks, a sailing skiff, and a wherry. Step-by-step photos and drawings make this an ideal guide for visual learners.