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The Boatbuilder's Apprentice: The Ins and Outs of Building Lapstrake, Carvel, Stitch-and-Glue, Strip-Planked, and Other Wooden Boa
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.8184
EAN: 9780071464055
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0071464050
Label: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: December 15, 2006
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Studio: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
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Learn the Ins and Outs of Building Lapstrake, Carvel, Stitch-and-Glue, Strip-Planked, and Other Wooden Boats
Whether you are contemplating your first-ever boatbuilding project or trying to decide what design you'd like to build next, Greg Rössel can help. Here's just a glimpse of what's inside this complete overview of wooden boatbuilding:
- How rowing, sailing, paddling, and powerboat designs perform, and how they compare in cost, time, and necessary skills for building
- How wooden boats are built, including the pros and cons of carvel, lapstrake, dory lap, stitch and glue, strip plank, and other methods
- How to choose the best boat and building method for your next project
- How to loft a hull, steam bend frames, scarf a joint, cut a rabbet, laminate stems, and spile planks
- How to take the lines off an old classic whose plans have been lost
- How to make oars, spars, coamings, knees, gaff jaws, cleats, and more
Greg Rössel writes with warmth, wit, and an engaging style. The Boatbuilder's Apprentice is a must guide for anyone planning or even dreaming about building a wooden boat.
“Greg Rössel is a Renaissance man. While there are many talented boatbuilders in the world, only a handful are also good teachers. Even fewer can write or illustrate effectively. Yet this author is highly skilled in each of these areas. . . . The Boatbuilder's Apprentice is a successful blend of technique and wisdom, and is, I believe, destined to become a classic.”-Karen Wales, WoodenBoat Review
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Great book! I have been planning (dreaming) of building a wooden boat for a number of years. Only space and time have held me up. Now that I have both, I can begin serious research of the various methods and materials and set those dreams in motion. I have a couple other well-acclaimed books on the topic of wooden boat building, but they are focused on details of design, engineering and frame structure which is good, but they was too detailed and seemed to pass over the topics I needed to understand ... Read More
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Well written and a nice coffe table book but definitely not the lexicon of traditional methods I was hoping for... Provides a concise overview of the basic construction methods but does not provide any detail on practical low-tech historical methods like I was hoping for. You can pretty much find everything that is in this book for free on the net.
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All too often, first-time boat builders select a design mainly because they like the looks of it (often making their decision based on a small-scale profile plan or photo that they see on a magazine or online), order the plans, and then start trying to figure out how to build the thing. Then they discover that the design is intended for a certain method of construction (lapstrake, cold-molding, whatever) and they buy a book that explains how to do it. At that point, they may find that they've bitten off ... Read More
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Although it's not too old, my copy of Rossel's book is dog-eared and stained. That's because it lives not on a shelf but on the work bench in my shop. I refer to it, and Rossel's earlier book, frequently. Building a boat involves hundreds of small tasks, some of them a bit tricky. Because many of those only come up infrequently, it's easy for even the relatively experienced amateur builder to need a little help remembering how it's done. This book is perfect for that.
It is equally well suited to the ... Read More
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