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Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction Hardcover - 1994

by Howard I. Chapelle


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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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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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  • Title Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction
  • Author Howard I. Chapelle
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 640
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Date 1994-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780393035544 / 0393035549
  • Weight 2.1 lbs (0.95 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.6 x 6.42 x 1.26 in (24.38 x 16.31 x 3.20 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Boatbuilding, Ships, Wooden - Design and construction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94014556
  • Dewey Decimal Code 623.820
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