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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.8207
EAN: 9780937822104
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0937822108
Label: Wooden Boat Publications
Manufacturer: Wooden Boat Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 255
Publication Date: 1987-03
Publisher: Wooden Boat Publications
Studio: Wooden Boat Publications
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Here is everything you need to know to construct a carvel planked cruising boat with no more than a set of plans, a pile of lumber, and determination.
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This book was written by a man that isn't sure if he wants to write a love novel or a how to book. Every other paragraph goes off into stories of old origin and there are comments all over the book about stupid humor. I expected this book to be a lot more serious. I have build wooden boats in the past and am familiar with the terms which I encountered so that is not my objection. I only bought this book because it was required reading for my studies but not a single student in our class read one ... Read More
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Great book for a beginner. There are a lot of details that require more research, but it's a great jumping off point.
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I bought this for my husband and to help me understand the process of building. It succeeded for me, and James said it gives a good over-view of boat building and answered a lot of questions, but needs to be backed up with Details of Classic Boat Building if someone is actually building their first wooden boat.
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Mr. McIntosh is quite obviously a master of his craft. Sadly, though, he's an exceedingly poor teacher, and one would need to be both in order to write this book well. Needlessly (sometimes infuriatingly) verbose, the author buries critical theses in an avalanche of lyrical verbiage that achieves nothing other than obscuration of the point. Illustrations that accompany the text rarely help to clarify the written instruction. An application or two of the K.I.S.S. principle would have worked wonders ... Read More
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The day I first met the late New England boat builder Bud McIntosh he was down in the hold of a schooner's hull setting keel bolts--and singing Homer's Iliad in ancient Greek. He stopped when he saw me peaking through a gap in the planks (probably amused by my mouth hanging open in wonder and awe) and asked: "You like boats?" Well I did, and I was there to ask him a question about planking a skiff I was building for my family.
Bud not only answered that question, but he answered many ... Read More
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