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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.8202
EAN: 9780964007031
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0964007037
Label: Devereux Books
Manufacturer: Devereux Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: December 01, 1998
Publisher: Devereux Books
Studio: Devereux Books
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Editorial Review:
Book Description:
Boats for everyone!
This is the first book-length study of the affordable, fascinating, easy-to-build, flat-bottom skiff. Easy to build, affordable, easy to transport, skiffs offer a world of fun to boaters of all ages.
The book includes chapters on skiff history, skiff design, and construction techniques. There's even a chapter that takes you step-by-step through the building of a "stitch-and-glue" nine-footer.
The rest of the books contents include the author's commentary on 17 skiffs of all sorts: outboard skiffs, rowing skiffs, sailing skiffs, a work skiff, even a skiff designed for a one-lunger marine engine. There are plans for each boat that provide plenty of food for thought together with addresses of the boats' designers so that plans be purchased.
This is a fun book that discusses a deservedly popular boat type that has endured for at least two centuries on lakes, rivers, and the coast.
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Based on a whim and a review in Chesapeake Bay Magazine, I read Karl Stambaugh's "Good Skiffs" last winter. Remarkably, I now have found the serious hobby I always wanted but never knew where to find.
"Good Skiffs" opens with a nice discussion of flat-bottomed boat history and lore, but it's really the chapters on skiff design and construction that start drawing the reader in. The author, a naval architect and designer, writes in an engaging fashion and readily shares his passion for the challenges and joys of designing, building and owning these small craft. The book includes pictures and information on more than a dozen designs, some of which are the author's. Stambaugh's accompanying commentary is genuinely enthusiastic and insightful.
The book concludes with a step-by-step guide for the construction of Stambaugh's 9 foot Weekend Dinghy. I built it last spring from a kit and used the book as a supplement. I'm now working on a 14 foot outboard skiff, also the author's design. What more can I say?
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