Building Classic Small Craft: Complete Plans and Instructions for 47 Boats
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (717 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0070228647 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 536 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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" worth your attention whether you seriously fancy to build boats yourself or just enjoy reading about them." -- Sailing"If I wanted to build a small sailing or rowing boat and could have only one book, my choice would have to be this. It is a classic." -- The Log of Mystic Seaport"John Gardner has engaged and inspired more individuals connected with traditional small boat craft than will ever be counted." -- WoodenBoat"Poses clear and impassioned means to go from the armchair to the open water via your boatshop." -- Sea History
A Customer said not for beginners. I find the book to be a good general guide to the various boat designs covered - but, only for the previosuly experienced boat builder. It is not a good book for the beginner to learn basic shipwright skills and does not cover the more specific aspects of construction (such as a beginner would need) and the plans are a bit difficult to read at times. In summary, a good book for the seasoned boatbuilder who wishes to expand his horizons. Beginners be cautioned.. Required Reading Rick B. This collection of complete boat plans, instructions, and boat-building tips is simply wonderful. Mr. Gardner was a man with the common touch and the ability to communicate clearly--all of these boats are aimed at the "amateur" builder. He has no axes to grind; his designs include all of the traditional construction techniques plus glued plywood and taped seam plywood; there are rowboats, sailboats, and powerboats. The articles are also sprinkled with historical and editorial commentary. ryan baertsch said Five Stars. This is a great book for boat planes! It almost to much information.
Besides a lifetime's worth of tested projects, it includes salutes and eulogies from Gardner's legions of fans.. Featuring the collected wisdom of the dean of American small craft builders, this commemorative volume combines John Gardner's building Classic Small Craft, Volume One and More Building Classic Small Craft into one definitive magnum opus
He died in 1995.. He became a leading advocate and teacher of building small wooden boats and wrote more than 850 articles on small boats that appeared in National Fisherman, WoodenBoat, Boating, and Yachting, among others. John Gardner began his boatbuilding career in 1940 at Graves Boatyard in Marblehead, Massachusetts