87 Boat Designs

Author: Benjamin A. G. Fuller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780913372975
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"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."

Practical Small Boat Designs

Author: John Atkin
Publisher: Wooden Boat Publications
ISBN: 9781934982051
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

Mariner's Book of Days

Author: Peter H. Spectre
Publisher: Adlard Coles
ISBN: 9780713667769
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
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.

Lofting a Boat

Author: Roger Kopanycia
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408151294
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 153

Book Description
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.

Boat Plans at Mystic Seaport

Author: Anne Bray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780913372869
Category : Boatbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The Woodenboat

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boatbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 956

Book Description

Gar Wood Boats

Author: Anthony S. Mollica
Publisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 9780760306079
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
This is more than the story of the person and the company he founded in 1930-it is a photohistory of the magnificent boats themselves, and the extraordinary design, craftsmanship, and materials that made them legendary. Special attention is given to the Baby Gar, as well as runabouts, speedsters, utilities, and express cruisers-all built in Wood's Michigan boatworks.

Boatbuilding

Author: Howard Irving Chapelle
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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.

Boatbuilding for Beginners (and Beyond)

Author: Jim Michalak
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891369292
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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

Boats with an Open Mind: Seventy-Five Unconventional Designs and Concepts

Author: Philip C. Bolger
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 9780070063761
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
Based on the author's articles from various magazines, these unconventional sail and power boat designs include dinghies, pirogues, row boats, schooners, catamarans, dugouts, houseboats, and more.