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	Building Small Boats In association with Amazon.com by: Greg Rossel List Price: $39.95 Amazon.com's Price: $26.37 You Save: $13.58 (34%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $22.99 Third Party New Price: $25.00 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: Building Classic Small Craft : Complete Plans and Instructions for 47 Boats Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction The Boatbuilder's Apprentice: The Ins and Outs of Building Lapstrake, Carvel, Stitch-and-Glue, Strip-Planked, and Other Wooden Boa How to Build Glued Lapstrake Wooden Boats Boatbuilding Manual see more 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. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - This book is a life saver 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: - The Mandatory "Must Read" For First Time, Second Time, And Tenth Time Boat Builders 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: - An essential reference - Building Small Boats 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: - Not what I was looking for... 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: - Greg Rossel's "Building Small Boats" 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! see more		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
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