Building the 12 Foot Nesting Swampscott Dory Tender: (all the Information You Need to Build This Boat)

Building the 12 Foot Nesting Swampscott Dory Tender: (all the Information You Need to Build This Boat)
Author: Roy Timpe
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2019-01-22
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781794610286

This unique nesting boat is designed after the fashion of a Swampscott Dory. She can motor at 5.1 knots with a 2 horsepower motor. She rows well. She sails well with the balanced lug rig, and she can be stowed on deck in a 7 by 4 1/2 foot space.The Kindle book provides enough information to build the nesting dory. You can build this boat in your back yard. We have used the nesting dory as our tender for three trips up and down the East Coast of the USA. It was fun to build, has met our needs, and exceeded our expectations. If you search youtube for "12 foot nesting Swampscott dory" you can find several videos of the boat.

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.

Clinker Plywood Boatbuilding Manual

Clinker Plywood Boatbuilding Manual
Author: Iain Oughtred
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1998
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0937822612

After a successful career in centreboard racing dinghies, Ian Oughtred became one of the leading lights of the British wooden boat revival, designing, building and sailing many remarkable craft. These boats have gained a world-wide reputation for their elegance of line, sound construction and execellent sailing performance. His perfectionist approach may be unbusinesslike, but provides highly refined designs and detailed plans. In this he hopes to encourage a return to a deep appreciation of traditional values of craftsmanship, believing this is the vital part of the true education, and thus helps to nourish the human spirit in an impoverished age.

Ultrasimple Boat Building

Ultrasimple Boat Building
Author: Gavin Atkin
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2007-11-09
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 007159387X

The first complete how-to guide for building the latest generation of quick and easy boats In Ultrasimple Boatbuilding, renowned designer Gavin Atkin shows you how to create elegant, seaworthy plywood boats with a minimum of time, experience, and expense. Using clearly written and illustrated step-by-step instructions, Atkin explains the basics of stitch-and-glue construction, tools, materials, shop safety, and more, as he helps you choose and build the simpleboat of your dreams.

100 Boat Designs Reviewed

100 Boat Designs Reviewed
Author: Peter H. Spectre
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1997
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780937822449

Well-known as the editor of the best-selling annual Mariner's Book of Days, Peter Spectre lives in Spruce Head, Maine.

Building Strip-Planked Boats

Building Strip-Planked Boats
Author: Nick Schade
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2008-11-14
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0071643370

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.

Pete Culler on Wooden Boats

Pete Culler on Wooden Boats
Author: John G. Burke
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2007-11-09
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0071709940

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.

Tolman Alaskan Skiffs

Tolman Alaskan Skiffs
Author: Renn Tolman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Boatbuilding
ISBN: 9780966871111

Plans and instructions for building all three of the world-famous Tolman skiffs. Here are boats you can build with common tools, common skill, and common materials.

Boatbuilding Manual, Fifth Edition

Boatbuilding Manual, Fifth Edition
Author: Robert M. Steward
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2010-12-10
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0071744630

Get the latest boatbuilding tips from this updated classic Since its first publication in 1970, Boatbuilding Manual has become the standard reference in boatbuilding and boat design schools, in the offices of professional builders, and in the basement workshops of home builders. No other boatbuilding text has simultaneously served the disparate needs of professional and amateur audiences so successfully. Carl Cramer, the publisher of WoodenBoat and Professional Boatbuilder magazines, has fully updated this fifth edition with the latest in boatbuilding techniques and developments. Includes: The latest wood-epoxy construction methods that make amateur building more successful than ever before Recommendations on products and materials, saving you time and money substantial time and expense Topics include: Plans, Tools, Woods, Fiberglass and Other Hull Materials, Fastenings, Lines and Laying Down, Molds, Templates, and the Backbone, Setting Up, Framing, Planking, Deck Framing, Decking, Deck Joinerwork, Interior Joinerwork, Finishing, Sailboat Miscellany, Steering, Tanks, Plumbing, etc, Mechanical and Electrical, Potpourri, Safety