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Excellent info with great step by step insturctions with a great deal of detail and photos to eliminate most questions on construction. A must read for anyone interested in building their own strip Kayaks.
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Moores approaches KayakCraft with the thoroughness of CanoeCraft. This is a very detailed and well illustrated treatment of the subject. I had no difficulty understanding Moores' tables of offsets (the Appendix is helpful), but I have some lofting experience. You could build using this book alone. This book is a good value and a worthwhile addition to my boatbuilding library.
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I see several people are having trouble with the offset tables. They are really not complicated at all. The appendix explains exactly how to use this information to create the station molds you will need to begin planking the boat on the strongback (the temporary building jig/frame of the boat). I know they work because I used them to build my boat without the $100 worth of plans. This can be done with ruler and pencil or CAD if you have access to it.
If after reading the appendix you still don't understand it, go to the builder's forum on bearmountainboats.com and either search through the history or start a new thread to get your answers. Lots of helpful folks on there willing to answer.
Also, there are updates to the offset tables on the website, so you can get the latest updates before starting to layout your station molds! Does that sound like a conspiracy to sell plans?
I don't know what the guy who rated this book one star is trying to build, but whatever it is, it's an engineering problem far beyond the scope of this book, or any other book of its type. One would have to get into serious engineering analysis to answer that question.
This book is for building touring and pleasure kayaks. If that's what you want to build, this is arguably the best book to do it with. Sounds like Nick Schade's book is really good too. I hope to read it someday.
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I recently purchased this book along with " The Strip-Built Sea Kayak " by Nick Schade. I agree that this book definitely needs some explanation on drawing the forms from the offset tables. Shade's book explains it O.K. Even after reading Schade's book I found Moores' table's confusing. I realize he is tring to sell plans for his boats, but come on he should have a little more explanation then that. Otherwise this book is pretty good.
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I own the Kayakcraft and Canoecraft books. I had little trouble following the tables in the canoecraft and I was able design other canoes. The Kayakcraft book seems to offer useful information for construction but the tables leave me stumped. No doubt they are hoping to sell plans along with the book.
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