Traditional Boatbuilding Made Easy; Building Heidi
By Richard Kolin
Heidi is a 12 foot flat-bottomed skiff for oar and sail.This is a tradional small skiff in the North American Tradition. The bottom is wide and cross-planked, the topsides raked of three strakes fitted to frames and clenched with copper boat nails and roves. This is an ideal introduction to traditional boatbuilding, the flat but rockered bottom being easier to construct than a vertical keel, and having operational advantages in loading and unloading from a trailer, high initial stability and shoal water capability. Extremely well illustrated with the designer's own drawings which cover ever aspect of the construction.
85 pages. Softcover
|
Building the Sea Urchin
by Simon Watts
A complete building manual for this traditionally built clinker Nova Scotian dinghy.
The Sea Urchin is a 10' 6" (3.3M) rowing dinghy that rows easily, is stable and can safely carry three adults. It is a design that tows well and be rowed on or off beaches through moderate breaking surf, or is equally at home in quiet waters. For recreational use the author recommend 3/8" planking, or 1/2" for a working boat. No lofting is required since it comes with all critical parts, knees, transom, frames, etc., drawn full scale on the two 30" x 42" plan sheets which are included. The 24-page manual is profusely illustrated.
This is a traditionally built boat, which involves all the traditional skills of dimensioning wood, cutting out rebates, bending and fairing planks, the use of copper nails and roves. If you have some boatbuilding experience and intermediate woodworking skill this would be a good introduction to traditional boatbuilding.
Includes full scale plans of all critical parts.
|
| |
Rip Strip & Row!
By J.D. Brown. Design by John Hartsock.
A builder's guide to the Cosine Wherry.
The Cosine Wherry is an elegant 14 foot pure rowing boat. It derives its name from the American use of the term wherry to denote any small rowing boat. But why Cosine? The designer believed that a plot or graph of the underwater sections plotted against length should conform to a cosine curve. This produces a hull which is remarkably similar in shape to the fast pulling boats developed over the years on both sides of the Atlantic. The Cosine Wherry is built by the strip plank method using epoxy adhesives which produces a beautiful, hard wearing hull which lives happily out of the water in a shed or car roof.
80 pages. Full size hull mould patterns. Soft cover.
|
The Making of Tom Cat
By William Garden
51 pages, Hardback.
Tom Cat is a 12'6" catboat, a type of boat particularly associated with the the North East coast of America. Typically the cat boat has a length to beam ratio of 2:1, the mast is stepped well forward and carries a single gaff mainsail. The hulls have either a built-down keel or a centre board. The cockpits are spacious providing a relaxed lounging area. Tom Cat has a centre-board and can be built traditionally carvel planked, albeit with glass and epoxy coating, or strip-planked, again with glass and epoxy coating. Although the book provides plans, lines and offsets, this a serious piece of traditional wooden boatbuilding, involving lofting, lifting shapes from the lofted lines, working out plank shapes, and joinery work for all the nicely detailed parts. The whimsical text and illustrations by the author/designer make it an enticing read. This project would be a serious challenge for any first time boatbuilder, but the results would amply justify the time and effort.
51 pages. Amply illustrated with drawings and colour photos. Hardback.
|
| |
|
