Boatbuilding

Product Description

Boatbuilding is a practical handbook & boatshop assistant, designed & written to meet the needs of the builder, covering the complete process of wooden boat construction. The text covers all types of craft from flat-bottom rowboats to ocean cruisers & commercial vessels, & aids the builder in overcoming difficulties & discouraging delays resulting from the lack of easily available information on the practical side of boatbuilding. Boatbuilding gives detailed instructions, with many illustrations, on all phases of boatbuilding written out of actual boatbuilding practice & aids the builder in planning each job in its proper sequence in relation to those that follow. After a chapter discussing the choice of plans suitable for amateur work there are chapters on lofting, the backbone & setting up, flat-bottom hull construction, V-bottom hull construction, round-bottom hull construction, deck framing & building, special construction (plywood, strip planking, lap-strake, diagonal, ribband carvel, canvas), heavy construction, joiner-work, iron-work, & spar making. Each chapter is organized for easy & quick reference, & the book is completely indexed. An added feature is the inclusion of building plans for nineteen boats designed for this book & suitable for amateur building.