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Building a Strip Canoe: Full-Sized Plans and Instructions for Eight Easy-To-Build, Field Tested Canoes
Building a Strip Canoe: Full-Sized Plans and Instructions for Eight Easy-To-Build, Field Tested Canoes
by Gil Gilpatrick
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Covering everything from safety in the boat to shop repairs,Gil Gilpatrick thouroughly explains the whys and shortcuts learned from his experience in the shop and on the water. A Maine guide, he uses his own canoes and tests their performance on the... (read more)

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Millionaires, Mansions, and Motor Yachts: An Era of Opulence
Millionaires, Mansions, and Motor Yachts: An Era of Opulence
by Ross Mactaggart
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Through a lively text and 250 stunning duotone images (most never previously published), Millionaires, Mansions, and Motor Yachts re-creates an era of opulence and extravagance that today seems incredible. Dominating this volume are the mansions and... (read more)

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Understanding Boat Design 4TH Edition
Understanding Boat Design 4TH Edition
by Edward Brewer
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For new boating enthusiasts--even if they've been at it awhile--there are scores of burning questions. If one boat has a round bottom and another's is veed, what difference does it make in the way they perform? What are the advantages of a cutter rig... (read more)

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Shipboard Propulsion, Power Electronics, and Ocean Energy
Shipboard Propulsion, Power Electronics, and Ocean Energy
by Mukund R Patel
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Derived from the author's 30 years of experience in industry and academia, this book covers modern shipboard propulsion and the power electronics and ocean energy technologies driving it. Divided into three parts, this book first focuses on power... (read more)

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Building the Sea Eagles: A Pair of Safe and Seaworthy Beach and Coastal Cruisers
Building the Sea Eagles: A Pair of Safe and Seaworthy Beach and Coastal Cruisers
by David L Nichols
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Includes two original beach-cruising sailboat designs, with full plans for building them and thorough, meticulous instructions and photos. Beach cruisers are sailboats designed to pull up in the shallows near shore for overnight camping, with room for... (read more)

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Building the Greenland Kayak: A Manual for Its Construction and Use
Building the Greenland Kayak: A Manual for Its Construction and Use
by Chris Cunningham
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-189) and index.... (read more)

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Boatbuilding with Aluminum: A Complete Guide for the Amateur and Small Shop
Boatbuilding with Aluminum: A Complete Guide for the Amateur and Small Shop
by Stephen F. Pollard
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Make your boat dreams come true with aluminum<P>Aluminum is the ideal boatbuilding material--light, economical, maintenance-free, and easy to work with. This second edition offers you everything you need to know about working with this material... (read more)

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Traditional Boatbuilding Made Easy
Traditional Boatbuilding Made Easy
by Richard Kolin
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Captured within these pages is wooden boat building at its most pleasurable -- a traditional boat constructed in the traditional manner -- solid planking, copper clench nails, bronze fittings, three-strand rope, the aroma of cedar planking, turpentine... (read more)

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Yamaha Outboard Volume 3 V4 & V6 1984 To 1988 Tuneup & Repair Manual Includes Jet Drive Counterrotating Drive
Yamaha Outboard Volume 3 V4 & V6 1984 To 1988 Tuneup & Repair Manual Includes Jet Drive Counterrotating Drive
by Joan Coles
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SELOC Marine maintenance and repair manuals offer the most comprehensive, authoritative information available for outboard, inboard, stern-drive and diesel engines, as well as personal watercraft. SELOC has been the leading source of how-to information... (read more)

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The Chinese Sailing Rig: Design and Build Your Own Junk Rig
The Chinese Sailing Rig: Design and Build Your Own Junk Rig
by Derek Van Loan
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The Chinese Sailing Rig - Designing and Building Your Own is a practical handbook which emphasizes adapting western hulls to a Chinese rig. Its "take a hammer in one hand and a nail in the other" approach leads the amateur designer/builder through all... (read more)

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The Boatbuilder's Apprentice: The Ins and Outs of Building Lapstrake, Carvel, Stitch-And-Glue, Strip-Planked, and Other Wooden Boats
The Boatbuilder's Apprentice: The Ins and Outs of Building Lapstrake, Carvel, Stitch-And-Glue, Strip-Planked, and Other Wooden Boats
by Greg Rossel
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Learn the Ins and Outs of Building Lapstrake, Carvel, Stitch-and-Glue, Strip-Planked, and Other Wooden Boats Whether you are contemplating your first-ever boatbuilding project or trying to decide what design you'd like to build next, Greg Rössel can... (read more)

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Boatbuilding Manual 4TH Edition
Boatbuilding Manual 4TH Edition
by Robert M Steward
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With more than 60,000 copies sold, Boatbuilding Manual is one of the most widely read texts on the subject, and it has been used for years as a standard reference at both boatbuilding and design schools. A builder and designer for more than 55 years... (read more)

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Of Yachts & Men
Of Yachts & Men
by William Atkin
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The famed boat designer's warm, entertaining, and informative reminiscences of a lifetime enjoying boats. First published in 1949, this autobiography of William Atkin, "America's foremost designer of small yachts," gained such a wide public audience that... (read more)

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Featherweight Boatbuilding
Featherweight Boatbuilding
by Mac Mccarthy
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It is Mac's mission to open your eyes to the natural beauty around you. He does so by, providing this course to create and use an ideal double-paddle canoe. The Wee Lassie is practical and beautiful, lightweight and strong, and will carry you to water... (read more)

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Buehler's Backyard Boatbuilding
Buehler's Backyard Boatbuilding
by George Buehler
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Everybody has the dream: Build a boat in the backyard and sail off to join the happy campers off Pogo Pogo, right? But how? Assuming you aren't independently wealthy, if you want a boat that's really you, you gotta build it yourself. Backyard... (read more)

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Stitch-And-Glue Boatbuilding: How to Build Kayaks and Other Small Boats
Stitch-And-Glue Boatbuilding: How to Build Kayaks and Other Small Boats
by Chris Kulczycki
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Plans and assembly instructions for eleven boats, including nine kayaks, a skiff, and a rowing shell Step-by-step photographs and drawings The information you need to choose the right materials for your boat Your guide to the most popular method of... (read more)

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The Elements of Boat Strength: For Builders, Designers, and Owners
The Elements of Boat Strength: For Builders, Designers, and Owners
by Dave Gerr
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"This work is significant. It is the first to include a method of assessing structural strength in the context of the modern marine environment."--Commander M. C. Cruder, U.S. Coast Guard Acclaimed author and naval architect Dave Gerr created this unique... (read more)

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Steam Coffin: Captain Moses Rogers and the Steamship Savannah Break the Barrier
Steam Coffin: Captain Moses Rogers and the Steamship Savannah Break the Barrier
by John Laurence Busch
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For millennia, humans well-knew that there was a force far more powerful than they upon the Earth, and that was Nature itself. They could only dream of overcoming its power, or try to believe in the myths and fables of others who supposedly had done so.&#... (read more)

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Boat Green: 50 Steps Boaters Can Take to Save Our Waters
Boat Green: 50 Steps Boaters Can Take to Save Our Waters
by Clyde W Ford
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Recreational boating is a pastime enjoyed by millions. Yet the waters and marine environment that boaters so love are in serious jeopardy from pollution, resource mismanagement, and misunderstanding. Boaters can help change that. Although a relatively... (read more)

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Inspecting the Aging Sailboat (International Marine Sailboat Library)
Inspecting the Aging Sailboat (International Marine Sailboat Library)
by Don Casey
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Become an Expert Judge of Used Sailboats Step by step, the author of the bestselling This Old Boat shows you how to evaluate the condition of an older fiberglass sailboatthe one you own or the one you'd like to purchase. Don Casey's expert advice helps... (read more)

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