Drift Boats & River Dories

Drift Boats & River Dories
Author: Roger L. Fletcher
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2007-05-31
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0811742636

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

Drift Boats & River Dories
Author: Roger L. Fletcher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2017-08
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780811719735

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.

Float-Fishing Strategies

Float-Fishing Strategies
Author: Neale Streeks
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2010-12-16
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0811744183

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

The Emerald Mile
Author: Kevin Fedarko
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2014-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439159866

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

The Dory Book
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2022-06-15
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1493068326

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

How to Build the Gloucester Light Dory
Author: Harold H. Payson
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1988-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780937822043

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.

Selectivity

Selectivity
Author: Matt Supinski
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2014-01-11
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0811756661

"Wow. What a book and what an undertaking. This should be a must-read for the most exacting fly fisherman. I would guess that it will be one of the most important reference volumes ever written. It should be read and re-read many times."--Ed Shenk, author of Ed Shenk's Fly Rod Trouting • Strategies for fooling tough fish in all types of environs, from tailwaters to spring creeks to Gaspe salmon streams • Breathtaking photos from the top streams around the world • Hundreds of innovative fly patterns with recipes and notes

Hydraulic Design of Side Weirs

Hydraulic Design of Side Weirs
Author: R. W. P. May
Publisher: Thomas Telford
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2003
Genre: Diversion weirs
ISBN: 9780727731678

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

Big Water, Little Boats
Author: Tom Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012
Genre: Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
ISBN: 9780979505560

"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].