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Book The Book of Wooden Boats

Download or read book The Book of Wooden Boats written by Maynard Bray and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-11-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent collection of full-color photographs by renowned photographer Benjamin Mendlowitz of beautiful vessels includes wooden boats ranging from simple prams to sailing and power yachts. Noted marine historian Maynard Bray provides commentary on more than 90 of the world's most photogenic boats.

Book The Woodenboat

Download or read book The Woodenboat written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding

Download or read book Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding written by Douglas Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the author's apprenticeships with Japanese masters to build five unique and endangered traditional boats. It is part ethnography, part instruction, and part the personal story of a wooden boatbuilder fueled by a passion to preserve a craft tradition on the brink of extinction. Over the course of 17 trips to Japan, Douglas Brooks traveled over 30,000 miles to seek out and interview Japan's elderly master boatbuilders; he built boats with five of them, all in their seventies and eighties, between 1996 and 2010. For most of them, Brooks was their sole and last apprentice. Part I introduces significant aspects of traditional Japanese boatbuilding: design, workshop and tools, wood and materials, joinery and fastenings, propulsion, ceremonies, and the apprenticeship system. Part II details each of his five apprenticeships, concluding with a poignant chapter on Japan's sole remaining traditional shipwright. This fascinating book fills a large and long-standing gap in the literature on Japanese crafts, and will be of interest to boatbuilders, woodworkers, and all those impressed with the marvels of Japanese design and workmanship.

Book Driftwood Captain

Download or read book Driftwood Captain written by Paul B. Kenyon and published by Peter Smith Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Pete Leonard discovers an old, sunken hull in the bay and hauls it home to rebuild. Are the items in the old boat really the sunken treasure that some people think?

Book Anual Statements     on the Commerce and Navigation

Download or read book Anual Statements on the Commerce and Navigation written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Calendar of Treasury Books     Preserved in the Public Record Office

Download or read book Calendar of Treasury Books Preserved in the Public Record Office written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hudson River Lighthouses

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hudson River Maritime Museum
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 1467103306
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Hudson River Lighthouses written by Hudson River Maritime Museum and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lighthouses were built on the Hudson River in New York between 1826 to 1921 to help guide freight and passenger traffic. One of the most famous was the iconic Statue of Liberty. This fascinating history with photos will bring the time of traffic along the river alive. Set against the backdrop of purple mountains, lush hillsides, and tidal wetlands, the lighthouses of the Hudson River were built between 1826 and 1921 to improve navigational safety on a river teeming with freight and passenger traffic. Unlike the towering beacons of the seacoasts, these river lighthouses were architecturally diverse, ranging from short conical towers to elaborate Victorian houses. Operated by men and women who at times risked and lost their lives in service of safe navigation, these beacons have overseen more than a century of extraordinary technological and social change. Of the dozens of historic lighthouses and beacons that once dotted the Hudson River, just eight remain, including the iconic Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor's great monument to freedom and immigration, which served as an official lighthouse between 1886 and 1902. Hudson River Lighthouses invites readers to explore these unique icons and their fascinating stories.

Book Chart No  1

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nima
  • Publisher : Paradise Cay Publications
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780939837564
  • Pages : 110 pages

Download or read book Chart No 1 written by Nima and published by Paradise Cay Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chart Number One is essential to correct and accurate use of nautical charts. More than a chart, it is a book that defines the symbols, abbreviations and terms used on charts. It also provides important information about buoys, light visibility (range) and aids to navigation. This new and improved edition from Paradise Cay is a complete and accurate high quality reproduction of information provided by NOAA and NIMA.

Book Calendar of Treasury Books  1 September 1698 to 31 July 1699

Download or read book Calendar of Treasury Books 1 September 1698 to 31 July 1699 written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How to Build Wooden Boats

Download or read book How to Build Wooden Boats written by Edwin Monk and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book A Good Boat Speaks for Itself

Download or read book A Good Boat Speaks for Itself written by Timothy Cochrane and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Calendar of Treasury Books      Preserved in the Public Record Office

Download or read book Calendar of Treasury Books Preserved in the Public Record Office written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States

Download or read book Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The statistics of "Immigration and passenger movement" are included in the report on foreign commerce to 1895, and for 1893-1894 are also published separately.

Book Tightwads on the Loose

Download or read book Tightwads on the Loose written by Wendy Hinman and published by Wendy E. Hinman. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone dreams of tropical escape. But what happens when you escape for too long? Imagine spending 24 hours a day with your spouse in 31 not-so-square feet . . . for years; crossing the Pacific Ocean on two gallons of fuel; and tossing spaghetti marinara around your living room, then cleaning it up while bouncing like ice in a martini shaker. Tightwads on the Loose tells the story of Wendy and Garth, lured to sea by the promise of adventure. They buy a 31-foot boat that fits their budget better than it fits Garth's large frame and set sail for an open-ended voyage, never imagining they'd be gone seven years, or cover 34,000 miles at the pace of a fast walk. They live without most "necessities" and learn that teamwork and a sense of humor matter most as they face endless "character-building opportunities." They make a long-anticipated visit to the island where Garth had been shipwrecked as a teenager, only to find it had become a penal colony. An electronic catastrophe in the Solomon Islands leaves them without navigation equipment, which forces them to trade their free-wheeling lifestyle for one that seems straight out of a '60s sitcom: jobs at a U.S. Army base in the Marshall Islands. In Asia, they dodge typhoons and ships that threaten to turn their home into kindling. Finally they endure a grueling 49-day nonstop ocean crossing. None of this prepares them for their arrival "home" to a post-9/11 America which leaves them wondering what had changed more, them or the world. Tightwads on the Loose offers a fun read to the armchair adventurer -- or anyone afflicted with wanderlust.

Book How Secular Is Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tapati Guha-Thakurta
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2023-03-31
  • ISBN : 1009276751
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book How Secular Is Art written by Tapati Guha-Thakurta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an invitation to interrogate the secular modality of art, the book unsettles both the categories of 'art' and 'secular' in their theoretical and historical implications. It questions the temporal, spatial and cultural binaries between the 'sacred' and the 'secular' that have shaped art historical scholarship as well as artistic practice. All the essays here are anchored in a conception of a region, whether we call it South Asia or the Indian subcontinent – one, fissured by histories of partition, state formations and religious nationalisms, but still offering a collective site from which to speak to the disciplines of art and the knowledge worlds in which they are embedded. The book asks: How do we complicate the religious designations of pre-modern art and architecture and the new forms of their resurgence in contemporary iconographies and monuments? How do we re-conceptualize the public and the political, as fiery contestations and new curatorial practices reconfigure the meaning of art in the proliferating spaces of museums, galleries, biennales and festivals? How do we understand South Asian art's deep entanglements with the politics of the present?

Book Pete Culler on Wooden Boats

Download or read book Pete Culler on Wooden Boats written by John G. Burke and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2007-11-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The insights and wisdom of the late, great boat designer and builder Renowned as one of the last and best of the old-time boatbuilders, Captain R. D.“Pete” Culler provided a guiding light for the wooden boat revival in the 1970s. His designs are classic melds of elegance and utility; his workmanship was akin to artistry; and his teaching and writing a blend of clarity, good sense, insight, and humor. This book brings together the complete texts of Culler’s classic works Boats, Oars, and Rowing and Skiffs & Schooners, along with articles from The Mariner’s Catalogs and a selection of his timeless boat designs.

Book Report of the Chief of Engineers U S  Army

Download or read book Report of the Chief of Engineers U S Army written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: