Lofting Manual
The Mystic Seaport Boatshop Lofting Manual.
By Barry Thomas and Chris Rawlings.
Mystic Seaport Museum under the guidance of John Gardner started a course of small boat building workshops. These became immensely popular and so they produced this excellent guide to lofting a small round-bottomed dinghy which is the sort of starter project most of us aspire to. Seventy pages of instruction and drawings, comb-bound to lie flat on the bench, this is the best introduction to lofting for the beginner.
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Lofting
By Alan Vaitses
A more comprehensive text covering the lofting of three different hull shapes, a 12-foot skiff, L. Francis Herreshoff's 33 ft. Araminta, and a Raymond Hunt designed powerboat.. The author describes the techniques and practices necessary to loft a flat-bottomed boat, a round-bottomed boat with a keel, and a V-bottomed boat. He finishes with chapters on lofting or developing raked curved transoms, lofting for one-offs and tooling, and finally taking off lines from existing hulls. Clearly illustrated throughout. 150 pp. Softcover.
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Boatbuilding Manual
By Robert M. Steward.
Fourth Edition 1994
Now in its fourth edition and with 60,000 copies sold this has become the basic textbook on traditional and modern construction, mainly in wood, but it also surveys plywood, wood/epoxy, fibreglass, steel, aluminium and other methods.
Selected contents. Chapters cover Plans, Tools, Woods, Fibreglass and other Hull Materials, Fastenings, Lines, lofting and laying down, Moulds Templates and the Backbone, Setting Up, Framing, Planking, Deck Framing, Decking, Deck Joinerwork, Finishing, Steering, Tanks Plumbing etc., Mechanical and Electrical, and Safety. Appendices.
If you were to buy one book only on small craft construction, this would be it.
372 pages. B&W illus. Hardback.
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The Boatbuilder's Apprentice
By Greg Rossel
As the title suggests this is a book for the would-be boatbuilder.
The author begins by discussing boat choice in relation to the usage, materials, skill level and construction.
Part 1 covers Methods of Construction:- Carvel, Lapstrake (Clinker), Dory Lap planking, Planking a traditional flat bottomed boat, Batten Seam Construction, Strip Planking, Hard Chine V-bottom construction, Stitch and Glue, Glued Plywood Lapstrake Planking and Cold Moulding.
Part 2 covers Setting Up Shop. Traditional Hull Materials, Plywood, Hull Knees, Selecting an Adhesive, Fastenings, Bedding Compounds, Boat Finishes, Tools, the Workshop and Health and Safety.
Part 3 covers Building Techniques: Construction Planning, Lofting Basics and lofting in practice, Construction Set Up, The Backbone, Steaming Frames and Planks, Scarfs, Oars and Spars, Oarlocks, Pads and Leathers, Bitts and Pieces.
Part 4 covers choice of boats to build: Pulling Boats, Canoes and Kayaks, Dories, Sailing Boats, Powerboats, and taking the lines from a boat to be copied. App. Glossary and Index. A comprehensive guide to the beginning boatbuilder in wood.
340 pages. B&W Illus. Hardback.
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Building Classic Small Craft
By John Gardner
Originally published in two volumes and now available as one volume offering a total of 47 complete plans and building instructions. Covers small boats from prams and flatties to pulling boats, Pilot Gigs, canoes, river skiffs and much more.
Whatever your taste in small craft you are bound to find items of interest in this book.
536 pages. Copiously illustrated with photos, lines and construction details.
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Details of Classic Boat Construction: The Hull
By Larry Pardey
How to build a traditional plank on frame sailing boat. Larry Pardey was a boatbuilder who with his wife built two such yachts, both designed by Lyle Hess, and then sailed them hundreds of thousands of miles around the world, producing a series of cruise narrative and instructional books based on their own considerable experience.
Chapters cover:- Lofting, Cutting the Backbone Timbers, Assembling the Backbone Timbers, Shaping the Backbone and Cutting the Rabbet, Floor Timbers, Picking Up Patterns, Planking Deductions, and Frame Bevels, Framing the Hull, Horning in the Frames and Laying on the Ribbands, The Fashion Timbers, Fastening of the Bronze Floors in Place, Bilge Stringers, Stopwaters, The Ballast Keel, The Mast Step, Bulkheads, Lining Out, Planking, Caulking, Finishing the Hull, Deck Framing, Planking the Transom, Builder the Rudder and Boatbuilding Tools. Appendices cover Boatbuilding Woods, Yacht Construction Rules and the choice of adhesives.
526 Pages. B&W Illustrations. Hardback.
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