Building Outrigger Sailing Canoes

Author: Gary Dierking
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071594566
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 185

Book Description
Build the fastest, most exotic sailboats around! Popular in Hawaii and throughout the South Pacific and Indian Oceans, outrigger canoes combine the romance of the South Seas with a ruthless efficiency of design and breathtaking sailing performance. This is the first book to present complete plans and building instructions for three outrigger sailing canoes. Based on traditional Hawaiian and Micronesian types, the designs are lightweight, easy to build, and screamingly fast. Author Gary Dierking shows you how to build these boats using stitch-and-glue and strip-planking construction, explains what tools and materials are required, how to rig and equip the boats, and more.

Building Outrigger Sailing Canoes

Author: Gary Dierking
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
ISBN: 9780071487917
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Multihull Design Concepts

Author: Christopher Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646922461
Category : Multihull sailboats
Languages : en
Pages : 45

Book Description
How multihulls work as compared to Monohull craft

Canoe Rig

Author:
Publisher: Adlard Coles
ISBN: 9780713657524
Category : Boats and boating
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
Whether you are considering a new set of sails for your small yacht, thinking about a leeboard or just want ideas on how to steer a boat, this book contains all the information you need to make sails, build spars, leeboards or centreboards all backed up with measurements.

Kaʻnu Culture

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780958655408
Category : Canoe racing
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description

A Classic Guide to Building Punts and Canoes - Including Construction Your Own Canvas Canoes and Building a Sailing Boat

Author: Anon
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 147335899X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
This book is a collection of vintage articles about designing and building punts and canoes. With detailed diagrams and a wealth of useful tips, these timeless articles will be of considerable utility to those with an interest in making their own small boats and is not to be missed by collectors of classic literature of this ilk. Contents include: “Building Punts and Canoes”, “A 12-ft. Flat-Bottomed Boat”, “Lining-in or Layering-off”, “Starting the Building”, “The Knees”, “Side Planks”, “Deck”, “Chafing Battens”, “Finishing”, “A Thames Punt”, “A Knockabout Canadian-Type Canoe”, “A 12-ft. Canvas Canoe”, “A Fixing Keel Frame on the Stocks”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on building boats.

The Strip-Built Sea Kayak: Three Rugged, Beautiful Boats You Can Build

Author: Nick Schade
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071708707
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
Although books on strip building canoes abound, this is among the first to adapt the technique to crafting attractive, functional kayaks. Using high-quality, computer-generated illustrations and photographs to explain key techniques, the book provides complete plans and measurements for three different kayaks: 1) A simple solo craft for beginners, 2) A high-performance solo kayak for intermediate paddlers, and 3) A tandem design for two paddlers. With its easy-to-follow guidance and instructions, The Strip-Built Sea Kayak makes top-notch kayaks accessible to budget-minded paddlers.

Building Strip-Planked Boats

Author: Nick Schade
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071643370
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
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.

The Hawaiian Canoe

Author: Tommy Holmes
Publisher: Editions, Limited
ISBN: 9780915013159
Category : Canoes and canoeing
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Origins -- voyaging -- Materials -- Tools -- Canoe building -- Accessories -- Paddles -- Design -- Canoeing skills -- Canoe ladders -- surfing -- Fishing -- War -- Racing canoes -- Canoe racing -- Petroglyphs -- Burial canoes.

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".