Pete Culler's Boats

Author: John Burke
Publisher: Wooden Boat Publications
ISBN: 9781934982037
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 295

Book Description
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.

Pete Culler on Wooden Boats

Author: John G. Burke
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071709940
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
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.

Building Small Boats

Author: Greg Rössel
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
ISBN: 9780937822500
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
Greg Rossel grew up cruising the waters of New York Harbor and spending time in the boatyards on the south shore of Staten Island where economics (more than anything else) made wooden boats the craft of choice. He makes his home in Maine where he specializes in the construction and repair of small wooden boats, as well as writing for several publications. Greg has been an instructor at WoodenBoat School in Maine since the mid-1980's, teaching lofting, skiff building, and the "Fundamentals of Boatbuilding".

How to Build the Ocean Pointer

Author: David Stimson
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
ISBN: 9780937822722
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
David Stimson grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and learned boatbuilding while working in the local boatyards. During this time, he developed an eye for boat design from Merton Long, a retired catboat builder who became his friend and mentor. David's love of traditional boats was further inspired by the writings of John Gardner and Pete Culler in the 1970's and by WoodenBoat Magazine. He now lives in Boothbay, Maine, with his wife, Tamora and two teenage boys, Abraham and Nathaniel. He is a sailing charter captain during the summer, and designs and builds boats at Stimson Marine, Inc. in Boothbay.

Building Classic Small Craft

Author: John Gardner
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
ISBN: 9780071427975
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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

Pete Culler on Wooden Boats

Author:
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071489797
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
BOATING. Culler is a seminal figure in the field, and his works are acknowledged as classics and are cited constantly in discussions of traditional boat building and design. This book features a foreword by Peter Vermilya, small craft curator of Mystic Seaport Burke who served for years as Culler's protege and published a catalog of Culler's designs.

Boats, Oars, and Rowing

Author: R. D. Culler
Publisher: Camden, Me. : International Marine Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description

Wooden Boats to Build and Use

Author: John Gardner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780913372784
Category : Boatbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Background essays and complete building plans for 16 boats. Also included are discussions of half models, taking off lines, building techniques, and an essay on the future of wooden boats.

Building Chris-Craft

Author: Anthony Mollica
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1610601068
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
For more than half a century, Chris-Craft reigned supreme in the world of motorboating. This market dominance was due in no small part to the design and construction techniques employed in the company’s studios and on its factory floors. Building Chris-Craft examines the company’s design and production heritage, looking at Chris-Craft’s considerable accomplishments in the context of key competitors and industrial trends in general. High-quality archival images take readers inside the factories, design studios, and lofts of Chris-Craft factories in Algonac, Holland; Cadillac, Michigan; Salisbury, Maryland; Chattanooga, Tennessee; and Caruthersville, Missouri.

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.