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This book is for anyone ready to look at boat designs or building a boat... This book was my entry point into a great endeavor. Devlin's Boatbuilding goes though several different models of boat showing the great technique of Stitching a boat together. If you even thought of building a boat - get this book it is a page turner.
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This is the most exhaustive and detailed guide to the boatbuilding technique known as "stitch and glue".
You can find every detail for the construction of a boat using this technique.
A must for the serious Do-It-Yourself boatbuilder.
From the basics in materials, (plywood, resins, fiberglass cloth) to the intrincacies of transfering drawings to the plywood sheets, to the adaptation of a design to stitch and glue construction, Devlin takes you step by step through all the details, so your boat can be safe and a work to be proud of.Devlin's Boatbuilding: How to Build Any Boat the Stitch-and-Glue Way
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I am building a lightweight dinghy using the stitch & glue process and Devlin's book is perfect for what I am doing. I am using a set of plans from a different source that describe building the hull upside down but, Devlin's process is initially done right side up, a much better way in my opinion. Great book!
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This is one of the best how to books I've ever read. It is very clearly written and covers everything about building stitch and glue boats. There are lots of photos and the appendix lists lumber marine suppliers around the US. Depending on your boat's plans, you MAY not need this book. I built a Spindrift 11N and the designer's instructions were detailed enough so that I didn't need the book. However, there were still lots of helpful hints, theory, history, etc. in the book. Plus it cheap! Highly recommended.
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Samual Devlin is clearly a god to many in the boat-building community, but this book is simply pitched too high for most beginners, and that's a shame given that it's marketed to those very beginners. The book's major flaw (or it's greatest strength, perhaps) is in its author's refusal to accept anything but the best tools or materials. So for instance he says "There can be no compromise: the plywood *must* be marine grade". I think it's fair to say that most people building stitch-and-glue boats are doing so for economic reasons, so why insist on hard-to-get highly expensive marine plywood?
You'll rapidly put this book down unless you're highly familiar with the arcane vocabulary of advanced boat-building which Devlin uses at every turn, and sadly, that's what I've done for now.
I *am* liking the simpler book by Jim Michalak - Boatbuilding for Beginners (and Beyond).
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