Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction by Howard Irving Chapelle, Jonathon Wilson (Introduction)

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(Hardcover - Reprint)

  • Pub. Date: July 1994
  • 624pp
  • Sales Rank: 169,316

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    • Pub. Date: July 1994
    • Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
    • Format: Hardcover, 624pp
    • Sales Rank: 169,316

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    Boatbuilding is a practical handbook and boatshop assistant, designed and 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 and commercial vessels, and aids the builder in overcoming difficulties and 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 and 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 and setting up, flat-bottom hull construction, V-bottom hull construction, round-bottom hull construction, deck framing and building, special construction (plywood, strip planking, lap-strake, diagonal, ribband carvel, canvas), heavy construction, joiner-work, iron-work, and spar making. Each chapter is organized for easy and quick reference, and the book is completely indexed. An added feature is the inclusion of building plans for nineteen boats designed for this book and suitable for amateur building.

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    Reprint of the Chapelle (Search for Speed Under Sail) original published by Norton in 1941. Now printed on acid-free paper and with a new foreword by Jonathan Wilson. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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    March 29, 2001: The book was very complete on the details of vintage boat building, but ... he uses boat terms and assumes you know the part he's talking about, the lofting techniques are dated (pre-computer plots), and there is an insufficient amount of illustrations. There was some advice on which techniques are appropriate for the non-professional, but if you are a non-professional boat builder you wouldn't know what he was explaining. If you want to know how the best of the old ones were built this is a must buy.