Building Small Boats

For years greg has been teaching the fundamentals here at our WoodenBoat School. A classic in the making. Greg's talent for relaying this experience into the written word has resulted in a text with a straight-forward friendly approach, including helpful drawings and photographs. This book has fast become a best-seller.

Used book in Good Condition. The combination will drive-home the lessons. Building small boats is the ideal book for the construction of boats under 25 feet in length. It's perfect for folks looking to have some of the mysteries of the building process peeled away, or just boning-up on a good technique or two.

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Boatbuilding Manual, Fifth Edition

No other boatbuilding text has simultaneously served the disparate needs of professional and amateur audiences so successfully. Includes: the latest wood-epoxy construction methods that make amateur building more successful than ever before recommendations on products and materials, Deck Framing, Plumbing, etc, Deck Joinerwork, Steering, Finishing, Fastenings, saving you time and money substantial time and expense Topics include: Plans, Mechanical and Electrical, Woods, and the Backbone, Fiberglass and Other Hull Materials, Decking, Molds, Templates, Setting Up, Tools, Framing, Interior Joinerwork, Sailboat Miscellany, Planking, Potpourri, Tanks, Lines and Laying Down, Safety .

Carl cramer, the publisher of woodenBoat and Professional Boatbuilder magazines, has fully updated this fifth edition with the latest in boatbuilding techniques and developments. Get the latest boatbuilding tips from this updated classic Since its first publication in 1970, Boatbuilding Manual has become the standard reference in boatbuilding and boat design schools, in the offices of professional builders, and in the basement workshops of home builders.

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How to Build a Wooden Boat

Literate, warm, encouraging, insightful. Wonderfully illustrated by Sam Manning. Author built wooden boats for over 50 years and shares his knowledge about traditional, practical, plank-on-frame boat construction.


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Building Classic Small Craft : Complete Plans and Instructions for 47 Boats

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, and directions needed to build any of 47 beautiful small boats for oar, sail, handsome legacy volume contains all the plans, measurements, or motor.


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Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction

Boatbuilding is a practical handbook and boatshop assistant, designed and written to meet the needs of the builder, covering the complete process of wooden boat construction. The text covers all types of craft from flat-bottom rowboats to ocean cruisers and commercial vessels, and aids the builder in overcoming difficulties and discouraging delays resulting from the lack of easily available information on the practical side of boatbuilding.

An added feature is the inclusion of building plans for nineteen boats designed for this book and suitable for amateur building. Boatbuilding gives detailed instructions, with many illustrations, on all phases of boatbuilding written out of actual boatbuilding practice and aids the builder in planning each job in its proper sequence in relation to those that follow.

After a chapter discussing the choice of plans suitable for amateur work there are chapters on lofting, canvas, the backbone and setting up, heavy construction, flat-bottom hull construction, joiner-work, ribband carvel, round-bottom hull construction, deck framing and building, lap-strake, diagonal, strip planking, special construction plywood, iron-work, V-bottom hull construction, and spar making.

Illustrated throughout. Each chapter is organized for easy and quick reference, and the book is completely indexed.


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The Boatbuilder's Apprentice: The Ins and Outs of Building Lapstrake, Carvel, Stitch-and-Glue, Strip-Planked, and Other Wooden Boa

Here's just a glimpse of what's inside this complete overview of wooden boatbuilding: how rowing, spars, cleats, and necessary skills for building how wooden boats are built, lapstrake, cut a rabbet, and other methods How to choose the best boat and building method for your next project How to loft a hull, paddling, time, and more Greg Rössel writes with warmth, including the pros and cons of carvel, steam bend frames, stitch and glue, gaff jaws, sailing, strip plank, dory lap, and spile planks How to take the lines off an old classic whose plans have been lost How to make oars, knees, and powerboat designs perform, scarf a joint, wit, laminate stems, coamings, and how they compare in cost, and an engaging style.

Even fewer can write or illustrate effectively. While there are many talented boatbuilders in the world, only a handful are also good teachers. Yet this author is highly skilled in each of these areas. The boatbuilder's apprentice is a successful blend of technique and wisdom, and is, I believe, destined to become a classic.

Karen wales, WoodenBoat Review. Greg rössel is a Renaissance man. The boatbuilder's apprentice is a must guide for anyone planning or even dreaming about building a wooden boat.


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Clinker Plywood Boatbuilding Manual

Clinker plywood boatbuilding Manual is encompassing enough to guide you through any lapstrake aka Clinker boatbuilding project. We have been offering his detailed boatbuilding plans for years, so the book was a natural fit. There are hundreds of drawings, hundreds of photos, and it's dosed liberally with Iain's pragmatic experience.

And, you may have noticed many of his designs in WoodenBoat magazine's Launchings column. Iain oughtred is the well-known designer of elegant glued-lapstrake plywood boats, including the Acorn Skiffs, Caledonia Yawl, Gray Seal, Whilly Boat, and more. It covers tools and materials needed, interior work, planking, lining off, setting up the building jig, and fitting out.

With the book in hand, and a set of his plans, you can hardly go wrong.


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Building Strip-Planked Boats

International Marine Ragged Mountain Press. Written for all amateur builders, tools, the book covers materials, and safety issues. 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.


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Lofting

International Marine Ragged Mountain Press. Allan vaitses is an able and versatile builder, having a marvelous ability to devise solutions for the dilemmas that arise in boatbuilding.


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Gougeon Brothers on Boat Construction: Wood and West System Materials

West System. Used as a textbook in boatbuilding schools. Hardcover. 2. International Marine Ragged Mountain Press. 406 pages. Extensive chapters on hardware bonding, construction methods, safety and tools are described with the aid of hundreds of detailed illustrations and photographs.


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How to Build Glued-Lapstrake Wooden Boats

John brooks spends his summers teaching boatbuilding, and his winters building boats. Co-authoring the book is john's wife Ruth Ann Hill, who when not helping to build boats, is plying her writer trade. International Marine Ragged Mountain Press. 2. Used book in Good Condition. Boat carpenter john brooks is a picky guy--a trait you want in your teacher: he's a builder who abhors bits of epoxy messing-up a nice long clean planking line.

When you finish reading this book, you?ll understand just what you need to do to build a terrific boat. From his unique building jig and clamping system to his masking techniques, you?re on your way to the land of craftsmanship. John knows your attention to detail in the building stage will pay-off in spades for years and years to come, and that line-up of planks, the way it all fits makes the difference.

Read the book, use the index to quickly find all those bits of information, and sharpen your tools because you?ve just sharpened your mind. You'll benefit from her ability to clearly and concisely convert the physical building processes into words. A boat that is lightweight, forever appealing to the eye, a boat that doesn?t leak and doesn?t require much in the way of upkeep.

How is this truly possible? The devil is in the details. And, because the book is clearly written and heavily illustrated with hundreds of drawings and hundreds of photographs, this lovely boat will look as though your stock in trade is indeed that of ?boatbuilder?


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