10 Wooden Boats You Can Build

Author(s)

Peter H. Spectre
Publisher
Wooden Boat Publications
Date
1995
Pages
191
Format
pdf
Size
35.6

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Who with an interest in things nautical hasn’t been gripped by the monomaniacal passion to build a boat? As my friend George Putz used to say, those who haven’t are either psycho-emotionally wrecks or their nautical interest isn’t as serious as they thought it was. (There are those — usually cynical, non-nautically inclined spouses — who see the mania to build a boat as itself an indication’of psycho-emotional wreckage, but we won’t get into that….). Some people with a desire to build a boat fight off the notion. They convince themselves that they don’t have Die skills to do the work properly, or lack the necessary building space, or don’t have the tools or the money, or can’t find the plans for the boat of their dreams. Others surrender to the imperative and get on with the job. They know full well that given the desire the skills can be learned; the building space can be found; so, too, the tools, the money, and the plans. The truth of the matter is that anyone with a reasonable facility with their hands can build a boat. This is because all wooden boats are built in pieces. If you can make one piece, you can make another. If you can make another, you can make yet another. If you take the project step by step, concentrating on one piece at a time and paying attention to how each piece relates to the others, you will eventually have a seemingly complex whole constructed of several simple parts. The boats herein range from the most elementary to the more advanced, which means there is something for everyone in this book. The less skilled or the less financially flush can concentrate on a simple boat. Those with a higher level of skill and more money can move along to something more complex. The truly ambitious can start from the beginning and go to the end, and gain two essentials from the experience: They will have a variety of boat types to enjoy, and will have gained practical knowledge of the major methods of building wooden boats today.
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