Download or read book 87 Boat Designs written by Benjamin A. G. Fuller and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Former Mystic Seaport Curator Ben Fuller has selected and annotated 87 boat plans from the Museum's collection, plus plans for oars and rigging, with the amateur builder in mind. He offers a brief background on each boat, notes their strengths and weaknesses, and offers construction tips or suggestions for using the plans to help the reader select the right boat. The boats range from simple skiffs through handsome Whitehalls and sleek canoes, to a 20-foot catboat."
Download or read book Practical Small Boat Designs written by John Atkin and published by Wooden Boat Publications. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As fans of Atkin designs well know, the name Atkin has long been associated with the best in basic boats. If you are looking for the "right little boat" to build--or have built--or if you just enjoy dreaming over boat plans, you'll be more than pleased with this collection of John an Billy Atkin's most successful designs.Includes Willy Winship: 14' flat-bottom racing skiff, Liza Jane: 19' v-bottomed knockabout, Shore Liner: 24' flat-bottomed jib-headed sloop, Ninigret: 22' v-bottomed bassboat, Florence Oakland: 22'5" v-bottomed schooner, Finkeldink: 9' pram, Great Bear: 28' flat-bottomed sloop, Nina: 11'4" flat-bottomed sailing skiff, Handy Andy: 8' round-bottomed sailing dinghy, and more.Out of print for far too long, we've brought this book back into print, and updated with a new foreword by Mike O'Brien, long-time WoodenBoat magazine editor, and publisher of Boat Design Quarterly.
Download or read book Forty Wooden Boats written by Wooden Boat Magazine and published by Wooden Boat Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third major catalog of boat plans compiled by Cynthia Curtis, Doug Hylan and Mike O'Brien. Other books are 'Fifty Wooden Boats' and 'Thirty Wooden Boats'.
Download or read book How to Build a Wooden Boat written by David C. McIntosh and published by WoodenBoat Books. This book was released on 1988-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Lofting a Boat written by Roger Kopanycia and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-05 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in our Classic Boat series aimed at traditional boat lovers, builders and restorers. Lofting is an essential stage in the transition between designing and building a boat in order to turn the design plans into boat lines plans to measure off and build the full-size boat. Its a tricky art, but this book shows exactly how it is done in clear, step-by-step diagrammatic stages. Aimed specifically at the amateur DIY builder, it will enable anyone to build a boat of any size, whether power or sail. The author has been teaching lofting to boatbuilding students for over 10 years, and has found that the key to understanding is visualisation - hence the plethora of step-by-step diagrams in this book to assist the reader to grasp the concepts. Lofting will be welcomed by budding boatbuilders everywhere.
Download or read book Mariner s Book of Days written by Peter H. Spectre and published by Adlard Coles. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 13th year, The Mariner's Book of Days is an ever-growing encyclopedia of nautical fact, fiction and folklore. On each right-hand page is a week of days, with the nautical significance of each explored in brief. On each left-hand page is a collection of nautical miscellany evoking the rich traditions of the sea, illustrated with a variety of etchings, engravings, sketches and watercolours. The Mariner's Book of Days takes readers on a 365-day voyage through history.
Download or read book American Small Sailing Craft Their Design Development and Construction written by Howard Irving Chapelle and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1951 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Yacht Designing and Planning and Boatbuilding: the definitive history and survey of the great classic American small sailing craft.
Download or read book Principles of Yacht Design written by Lars Larsson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principles of Yacht Design has established itself as the standard book on the subject for practising designers, naval architecture students, discerning boat owners as well as the boatbuilding industry as a whole. The fifth edition is completely revised and expanded. It examines every aspect of the process of yacht and powerboat design. The new edition includes new findings from recent research in aero and hydrodynamics, as well as covering the most recent changes to building standards. The authors have used a newly built 41-foot performance cruiser to demonstrate the practical application of yacht design theory. This new edition includes photos of the building process and detailed explanations.
Download or read book Building Strip Planked Boats written by Nick Schade and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2008-11-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Boat Plans at Mystic Seaport written by Anne Bray and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ultrasimple Boat Building written by Gavin Atkin and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2007-11-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete how-to guide for building the latest generation of quick and easy boats In Ultrasimple Boatbuilding, renowned designer Gavin Atkin shows you how to create elegant, seaworthy plywood boats with a minimum of time, experience, and expense. Using clearly written and illustrated step-by-step instructions, Atkin explains the basics of stitch-and-glue construction, tools, materials, shop safety, and more, as he helps you choose and build the simpleboat of your dreams.
Download or read book Pete Culler s Boats written by John Burke and published by Wooden Boat Publications. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Burke spent much of his life in and out of the Culler house and shop. He has been a professional boatbuilder as well as contributor to WoodenBoat magazine.
Download or read book The Woodenboat written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boys Book of Model Boats written by Raymond F. Yates and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You will enjoy these wonderful and whimsical instructions on the best model boats in the world! Read this manual for more about every model boat you will need! Contents: Why a Boat Floats, The Hull, How to Make Simple Boats, With and Without Power Drive, cont...
Download or read book A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest written by National Gallery (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boatbuilding written by Howard Irving Chapelle and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1941 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Boatbuilding for Beginners and Beyond written by Jim Michalak and published by . This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate book for anyone who has dreamed of building a boat.
