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Designer & Client
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$31.50Boats of your dreams. Eight of them. Watch them evolve from concept sketches to final drawings. Experience the give and take between designer and eight different boat-savvy clients. Would you have added just a bit more shear? Increased the headroom? It’s time for some serious daydreaming.
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Building Heidi
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$21.95Richard Kolin has been building boats for 25 years. He has designed and built skiffs for both plywood and plank construction.
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Planking & Fastening
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$27.45Well-known as the editor of the best-selling annual Mariner’s Book of Days, Peter Spectre lives in Spruce Head, Maine.
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Frame, Stem & Keel Repair
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$27.45Well-known as the editor of the best-selling annual Mariner’s Book of Day’s, Peter Spectre lives in Spruce Head, Maine.
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Painting and Varnishing
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$27.45Well-known as the editor of the best-selling annual Mariner’s Book of Days, Peter Spectre lives in Spruce Head, Maine.
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Shipcarver’s Handbook
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$22.95Jay S. Hanna was a professional carver and modelmaker for more than 40 years. His models will be found on display in such institutions as the Mariner’s Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the Maine Maritime Museum, and in many private collections. His carvings adorn many yachts and cruise schooners, as well as stores and homes.
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How to Build the Catspaw Dinghy A Boat for Oar and Sail
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$10.95The Catspaw Dinghy is Joel White’s 12’8” version of the famed Herreshoff Dinghy Columbia. Catspaw is a carvel planked with 1/2” cedar over steam-bent oak frames, and copper rivet fastened.
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How to Build A Wooden Boat
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$39.95David C. “Bud” McIntosh was a designer, builder, and sailor of large and small wooden cruising boats for more than 50 years, and wrote about it for over 10 of those years. He made his home on New Hampshire’s Piscataqua River, where he was teacher and friend to both amateur and professional boatbuilders.
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How to Build the Shellback Dinghy
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$16.50Easy to build from the separately supplied plans or a kit of pre-cut pieces, the Shellback is a dinghy of traditional design and modern glued-plywood construction.
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Ten Wooden Boats You Can Build
$27.45The beauty of this book is that the construction bugs have already been worked out of the designs. Plans, step-by-step instructions, material lists photographs and detailed diagrams.