 |  
List Price: $39.95Amazon.com's Price: $26.37 You Save: $13.58 (34%)Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.844
EAN: 9780937822500
ISBN: 0937822507
Label: Wooden Boat Publications
Manufacturer: Wooden Boat Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: December 15, 1998
Publisher: Wooden Boat Publications
Studio: Wooden Boat Publications
Related Items:
Alternate Versions: Click to Display
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display
Editorial Review:
Product Description: This book is destined to become the text of plank-on-frame and lapstrake boat construction. A straight-forward approach in lively text, with hundreds of drawings, and photographs that drive home the lessons.
Average Rating: 
Rating: -
I have never bothered to review a book on Amazon before, but this book has compelled me to do so. The description of the lofting process is a masterpiece. I took every book on boatbuilding out of the library and this book is the only one that could adequately describe this confusing and complicated process. I'm an inexperienced boatbuilder and I'm building a pretty complicated John Gardner boat, from "Building Classic Small Craft." There are no full plans, just the dimensions in the offset table. If not for this book, it all would have remained hopelessly confusing.
Rating: -
I had the pleasure of taking Greg Rossel's "Lofting" class at the WoodenBoat School in Maine some years ago. Lofting is the very exacting process of taking a numeric description of a specific hull shape and converting that information to actual construction diagrams, from which you can build that hull. If you just want a quick-built boat, skip learning lofting. But if you want to understand the process that master wooden boat and ship builders went through hundreds of years ago (for example, as upstairs in the huge "lofts" of Dutch sailing ship building yard sheds) and still go through even today, then you do want to learn to loft. Either way, with or without lofting, "Building Small Boats" is absolute required reading for any small boat builder, novice or experienced. Greg is recognized as being one of the leading small wooden boat builders/instructors on the planet today. He combines an amazing mind, with precise exactness, with extremely simple to follow instructions, with the best possible hand-drawn (no less!) diagrams, with an uproarious sense of humor! Want to learn the secrets of the master small boat builder, all the way from thinking about a boat to putting it on the water? Take "Lofting" and "Fundamentals" at the WoodenBoat School from Greg. Second best? Read Greg's "Building Small Boats"...and then read it again....and once again....until the pages are worn and "dog eared", as Greg would insist, giving you his knowing wink, with that big infectious smile on his bearded face!
Rating: -
Building Small Boats
'Building Small Boats' by Roessel is an excellent overview and essential reference for anyone interested in the tools, materials and techniques of building traditional small watercraft. There is plenty of practical advice and great descriptions here to get started. Other books on specific topics such as adhesives and lofting may be desired for additional detail but this one would be the first I would pick up. Consider this book the foundation of a small library on traditional boatbuilding. Excellent investment.
Rating: -
I bought this book in the hopes of learning how to loft a boat I want to build. Unfortunately, the author wrote the book for people who already have a broad knowledge of boat building and its terms. The author uses terms that he nether defines nor provides in his glossary. It was very disappointing and I found several other books more useful and less expensive.
Rating: -
This is the "must have" guide for all builders of small wooden boats.Tools,materials,plans and construction techniques- all are covered in an easy to read style.There is value for the novice and professional alike.A terrific book!
|  | 

Boat Design.Net
Design Award

Top Rated Sites
Most Popular Sites
What's New
Boat
Plans
Books
Designers
Boatbuilders
Materials
Powerboats
Catamarans
Propulsion
Sailboats
Multihulls
Software
Resources
Random
Site
My Links
Gallery
Forums
Search
|