Year: 1981 Language: English Author: Charles E. Wood Genre: Manual Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press Edition: First ISBN: 0-87033-259-7 Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 534 Description: Building Your Dream Boat is intended to guide the amateur boatbuilder in how-to-do-it fashion through the many details of construction. One of the salient features of this book is the meticulous attention given all aspects of boat fabrication. Anyone building boats soon realizes that, though the hull requires the heaviest work, it represents only a quarter to a third of the time and cost of construction. There are many decisicns and working hours which still lie ahead after the hull has been completed. Each of the tasks seems to demand a different skill and frequently benefits from a sailor’s background. While thoroughly covering hull construction, the author places no less emphasis on those areas of boatbuilding that are often treated casually. There are chapters which deal with the complexities of engine and electrical installations as well as advances in rigs and rigging. Finishes, paints, adhesives, new construction materials and methods are discussed fully, enabling the craftsman to make intelligent choices in constructing a reliable, sturdy, and good-looking vessel. Making the assumption, for example, that any builder | wants to feel proud of the boat he is fashioning, the author takes great pains to provide for the internal! layout and a quality of cabinetry which will give the craft a custom-made look. As an experience. sailor, Wood knows what it means to achieve a goal—in this case, to build a safe and able vessel, ready and properly equipped to sail away and he is unsparing in his efforts to smooth the way for his readers to complete a successful boatbuilding project. Finally, an intimate knowledge of the seaman’s mentality enables the author to infuse his text with those details that sailors, as true jacks-of-all-trades, will readily understand and appreciate. Illustrated with 120 drawings and 83 photographs by the author.
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Building your dream boat
Language: English
Author: Charles E. Wood
Genre: Manual
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press
Edition: First
ISBN: 0-87033-259-7
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 534
Description: Building Your Dream Boat is intended to guide the amateur boatbuilder
in how-to-do-it fashion through the many details of construction. One of the salient
features of this book is the meticulous attention given all aspects of boat fabrication.
Anyone building boats soon realizes that, though the hull requires the heaviest
work, it represents only a quarter to a third of the time and cost of construction.
There are many decisicns and working hours which still lie ahead after the hull
has been completed. Each of the tasks seems to demand a different skill and frequently
benefits from a sailor’s background. While thoroughly covering hull construction,
the author places no less emphasis on those areas of boatbuilding that
are often treated casually. There are chapters which deal with the complexities of
engine and electrical installations as well as advances in rigs and rigging. Finishes,
paints, adhesives, new construction materials and methods are discussed fully, enabling
the craftsman to make intelligent choices in constructing a reliable, sturdy,
and good-looking vessel. Making the assumption, for example, that any builder |
wants to feel proud of the boat he is fashioning, the author takes great pains to
provide for the internal! layout and a quality of cabinetry which will give the craft a
custom-made look.
As an experience. sailor, Wood knows what it means to achieve a goal—in this
case, to build a safe and able vessel, ready and properly equipped to sail away and
he is unsparing in his efforts to smooth the way for his readers to complete a successful
boatbuilding project. Finally, an intimate knowledge of the seaman’s mentality
enables the author to infuse his text with those details that sailors, as true
jacks-of-all-trades, will readily understand and appreciate.
Illustrated with 120 drawings and 83 photographs
by the author.
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