Traditional Boatbuilding Made Easy

Traditional Boatbuilding Made Easy
Author: Richard Kolin
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1996
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780937822401

Richard Kolin has been building boats for 25 years. He has designed and built skiffs for both plywood and plank construction.

Building Catherine

Building Catherine
Author: Richard Kolin
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2001
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780937822623

Richard Kolin has been building boats for 25 years. He has designed and built skiffs for both plywood and plank construction.

Boatbuilding

Boatbuilding
Author: Howard Irving Chapelle
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 632
Release: 1941
Genre: Science
ISBN:

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.

Lofting a Boat

Lofting a Boat
Author: Roger Kopanycia
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2013-10-05
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1408151294

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.

Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding

Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding
Author: Douglas Brooks
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781953225009

This is the story of the author's apprenticeships with Japanese masters to build five unique and endangered traditional boats. It is part ethnography, part instruction, and part the personal story of a wooden boatbuilder fueled by a passion to preserve a craft tradition on the brink of extinction. Over the course of 17 trips to Japan, Douglas Brooks traveled over 30,000 miles to seek out and interview Japan's elderly master boatbuilders; he built boats with five of them, all in their seventies and eighties, between 1996 and 2010. For most of them, Brooks was their sole and last apprentice. Part I introduces significant aspects of traditional Japanese boatbuilding: design, workshop and tools, wood and materials, joinery and fastenings, propulsion, ceremonies, and the apprenticeship system. Part II details each of his five apprenticeships, concluding with a poignant chapter on Japan's sole remaining traditional shipwright. This fascinating book fills a large and long-standing gap in the literature on Japanese crafts, and will be of interest to boatbuilders, woodworkers, and all those impressed with the marvels of Japanese design and workmanship.

Featherweight Boatbuilding

Featherweight Boatbuilding
Author: Mac McCarthy
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1996
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780937822395

Using the Wee Lassie as an example, the author opens your eyes to the natural beauty around you. A practical and beautiful craft, this lightweight and strong double-paddle canoe will carry you to waterways that are inaccessible in most boats.

Building Small Boats

Building Small Boats
Author: Greg Rössel
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1998
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780937822500

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 a Wooden Boat

How to Build a Wooden Boat
Author: David C. McIntosh
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1988-03
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780937822104

David C. "Bud" McIntosh was a designer, builder, and sailor of large and small wooden cruising boats for more than 50 years, and wrote about it for over 10 of those years. He made his home on New Hampshire's Piscataqua River, where he was teacher and friend to both amateur and professional boatbuilders.

Model Boat Building

Model Boat Building
Author: Steve Rogers
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1994
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780887406423

The skipjack is one of the best working boats. Now Steve Rogers offers a guide for building a model skipjack, leading the craftsperson step-by-step through the process. The result is a beautiful boat in full sail. The model is in 1/2" scale, based on a skipjack that is 45 feet on deck with a 15 foot beam. Drawings, patterns, jigs, and accessories are all detailed. Everything is illustrated in clear color photographs.