Drift Boats & River Dories

Author: Roger L. Fletcher
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811742636
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
Provides sufficient detail to model 10 boats to scale or build them full size. Instruction and step-by-step photos for building a traditional boat to scale. With measured drawings for 10 traditional boats, including the Light McKenzie River Boat and the Rogue River Driver.

Drift Boats & River Dories

Author: Roger L. Fletcher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780811719735
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Whether you are a fly fisherman who enjoys the gentle lapping of water on wood or a boat builder who wants to recreate a piece of history, this book is for you. This fascinating history of the river pioneers who designed, built, and used the early river dories and their successors collects stories, diaries, photographs and plans of the early boats.

Driftboats

Author: Dan Alsup
Publisher: Frank Amato Publications
ISBN: 9781571881892
Category : Drift boats
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Driftboats have a long, and at times controversial, history in their native Oregon. Commonplace on Pacific Northwest waters, the popularity of driftboats is enjoying a surge eastward and today are found in every state. Now comes a comprehensive guide to driftboats, this book covers: the history; the controversy; contemporary boats; purchasing and outfitting a driftboat; rowing basics; reading water; drifting a river; solutions to common river problems; checklists; the future of driftboating; and more. Written with safety and courtesy at the forefront, this guide has all the information you need to be a responsible boat owner and operator.

Float-Fishing Strategies

Author: Neale Streeks
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811744183
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Revised edition of Drift Boat Strategies (978-0-87108-887-1) with new in-depth info on dry-fly fishing, nymphing, and streamer fishing from a boat.

The Emerald Mile

Author: Kevin Fedarko
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439159866
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
The epic story of the fastest boat ride in history, on a hand-built dory named the "Emerald Mile," through the heart of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado river.

The Dory Book

Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493068326
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
The dory has seen duty as a fishing boat, lumberman's batteau, lifeboat, recreational rowing boat, and racing sailboat. The most comprehensive book about dories ever published, this is at once a history of the dory, a practical handbook on dory building, and a compendium of 23 dory designs with full construction details. The author, a longtime contributor to National Fisherman, and the illustrator, Sam Manning, are perhaps the foremost experts on the subject. A steady stream of letters and photographs to the late John Gardner from successful dory builders worldwide has been testimony to the widespread popularity and influence of this book.

How to Build the Gloucester Light Dory

Author: Harold H. Payson
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
ISBN: 9780937822043
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
A shop manual on building an exceptional rowing dory. Designe by Philip Bolger, this dory is fast, seaworthy and a delight to row. Simple plywood cosntruction.

The Doing of the Thing

Author: Vince Welch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781892327079
Category : Boaters (Persons)
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description

Hydraulic Design of Side Weirs

Author: R. W. P. May
Publisher: Thomas Telford
ISBN: 9780727731678
Category : Diversion weirs
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
Side weirs are widely used to divert or discharge flows from reservoirs, rivers, artificial channels and sewers. The hydraulic behaviour of this type of weir is complex and difficult to predict accurately using simple methods and the diversity of applictions of side weirs has the potential to complicate guidance. This manual covers the fundamental hydraulic principles and discusses the practical design issues separately for each main strcuture type.

Big Water, Little Boats

Author: Tom Martin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979505560
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
"Using historic photos, river logs, letters and interviews, author Tom Marin recounts the voyages of a number of unsung river runners during the transformation from Grand Canyon expeditionary river running into today's whitewater recreation" -- Cover, p. [4].