Design Commentaries by the Experts
With this book in hand, you will hold the collective wisdom of the ages. Or at least the wisdom of the experts. A mountain of information has been culled from the best boat design reviews from WoodenBoat magazine. You'll spend hours pouring over a variety of boats, from rowing craft to powerboats, daysailers to cruising boats.
The reviews are comprehensive and thorough. No once-over-lightly here. There is an analysis of the lines, construction plan, accommodation plan, plus recommendations for improvements. The scope of work includes designs by John Alden, Joel White, Henry Scheel, Howard Chapelle, S.S. Crocker, and many others. This is a wonderful book for boat dreamers. Study these plans, read these commentaries, go sailing in your mind.
Table of Contents:
Reading the Drawings
Nesting Dinghies
Simple and Able Touring Kayaks
A Strip-Planked Touring Kayak
Two Sea Kayaks
Two Double-Paddle Canoes
A Sailing Canoe
Two Daysailers, Chesapeake Fashion
Schooner and Flashboat
Two Chesapeake Skiffs
A Rowing and Sailing Skiff
A Lapstrake Open Boat
A Sloop Boat
A Beach-Cruising Yawl
An Interclub Racing Dory
An Experimental Daysailer
Three Knockabouts
An Ultralight Cruiser
Two Small Cruisers
A Simple Pocket Cruiser
A Little Sloop
A Double-Ended Sloop
Two Plywood Pocket Cruisers
An Electric Auxiliary Cutter
Two Double Enders
Two Shoal-Draft Yawls
A Keel/Centerboard Sloop
A Pilothouse Sloop
Three Concordia Cruisers
A Double-Ended Sloop
A Shoal-Draft Plywood Ketch
A New Old Fashioned Yawl
Two Chesapeake-Style Deadrise Yachts
A Sloop or a Yawl
A Keel/ Centerboard Sloop
A Chesapeake Skipjack
A Cutter and a Sloop with Regional Roots
A Scottish Yawl
A Scandinavian-Inspired Cutter
A Designer's Choice
A Stout Cruising Ketch
A Cold-Moulded Cutter
A High-Performance Cruising Sloop
A Modern Traditional Yawl
A Fast and Able Cruising Schooner
A Pilothouse Cutter
A Cutter of the Colin Archer Type
A Masthead Yawl
A Shoal-Draft Ketch
A Big, Fast, Modern Cutter
A Modified Pungy
A Heavy Cogge Ketch
Two Cruising Ketches
A Canoe-Sterned Sloop and Her Daughter
A Fast Cruising Sloop
Three Simple Skiffs for Oar and Outboard
Two Outboard-Powered Garveys
Two Low-Powered Inboard Skiffs
Three Plywood Composite Outboard Skiffs
Four Classic Outboard Cruisers
A Displacement Launch
A Sheet-Plywood Lobster Skiff
A Stretched Lobster Skiff
A Seaworthy Double-Ended Powerboat
A Traditional Lobsterboat
A Modern Maine Picnic Boat
A Troller-Cruiser
Two Plywood Cruising Houseboats
A Motor Cruiser with Workboat Character
A Tunnel-Sterned Motor Cruiser
Two Seagoing Powerboats
A Deep-V Power Cruiser
A Swordfisherman
Two Striking Power Yachts
Part of The WoodenBoat Series, this book is a compilation of articles that have appeared in WoodenBoat magazine.
edited by Peter Spectre
264 pp., softcover
9 x 11"
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