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.

The Boatbuilder's Apprentice (PB)

The Boatbuilder's Apprentice (PB)
Author: Greg Rossel
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2006-11-05
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0071818618

Learn the Ins and Outs of Building Lapstrake, Carvel, Stitch-and-Glue, Strip-Planked, and Other Wooden Boats Whether you are contemplating your first-ever boatbuilding project or trying to decide what design you'd like to build next, Greg Rössel can help. Here's just a glimpse of what's inside this complete overview of wooden boatbuilding: How rowing, sailing, paddling, and powerboat designs perform, and how they compare in cost, time, and necessary skills for building How wooden boats are built, including the pros and cons of carvel, lapstrake, dory lap, stitch and glue, strip plank, and other methods How to choose the best boat and building method for your next project How to loft a hull, steam bend frames, scarf a joint, cut a rabbet, laminate stems, and spile planks How to take the lines off an old classic whose plans have been lost How to make oars, spars, coamings, knees, gaff jaws, cleats, and more Greg Rössel writes with warmth, wit, and an engaging style. The Boatbuilder's Apprentice is a must guide for anyone planning or even dreaming about building a wooden boat. “Greg Rössel is a Renaissance man. While there are many talented boatbuilders in the world, only a handful are also good teachers. Even fewer can write or illustrate effectively. Yet this author is highly skilled in each of these areas. . . . The Boatbuilder's Apprentice is a successful blend of technique and wisdom, and is, I believe, destined to become a classic.”-Karen Wales, WoodenBoat Review