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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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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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The Strip-Built Sea Kayak: Three Rugged, Beautiful Boats You Can Build
The Strip-Built Sea Kayak: Three Rugged, Beautiful Boats You Can Build
by Nick Schade
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Sea... (read more)

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Thirty Wooden Boats: A Second Catalog of Building Plans
Thirty Wooden Boats: A Second Catalog of Building Plans
by Wooden Boat Magazine
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The 30 designs include: 6 powerboats, 6 daysailers, 11 cruising boats. Also included is an article by designer Joel White on understanding boat plans.... (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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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.<P>Backyard... (read more)

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Building Outrigger Sailing Canoes: Modern Construction Methods for Three Fast, Beautiful Boats
Building Outrigger Sailing Canoes: Modern Construction Methods for Three Fast, Beautiful Boats
by Gary Dierking
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Build the fastest, most exoticsailboats around! Popular in Hawaii and throughout the South Pacificand Indian Oceans, outrigger canoes combine theromance of the South Seas with a ruthless efficiency ofdesign and breathtaking sailing performance. This is... (read more)

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Classic Yacht Interiors
Classic Yacht Interiors
by Jill Borrow
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'Classic Yacht Interiors' is the most comprehensive book on the subject to date. Over 120 different yachts (ranging in length from 25' - 353') are represented with superb color photographs and descriptive text. Included are exterior shots, accommodation... (read more)

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The New Cold-Molded Boatbuilding: From Lofting to Launching
The New Cold-Molded Boatbuilding: From Lofting to Launching
by Reuel Parker
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This features a boatbuilding process which combines strength, beauty, and the workability of wood, with the low-maintenance characteristics of epoxy. Ideally suited to the amateur builder wanting a good, solid cruising boat, this is a complete "soup-to... (read more)

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Stormproof Your Boat: The Complete Guide to Battening Down When Storms Threaten
Stormproof Your Boat: The Complete Guide to Battening Down When Storms Threaten
by William M Jr Burr
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Protect your boat from the fury of Mother Nature Stormproof Your Boat shows how to defend your boat from hurricanes and other storms. These proven strategies will protect your boat against the effects of storm surges, high winds, torrential rain, and... (read more)

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Catamarans: Tomorrow's Superyachts
Catamarans: Tomorrow's Superyachts
by Gregor Tarjan
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The largest catamarans have become a phenomenon of naval engineering - the superyacht of tomorrow. Gregor Tarjan, renowned multihull specialist, analyzes the impact of big ocean racers, the luxury charter environment, and new technologies on the... (read more)

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Backyard Boatbuilder: How to Build Your Own Wooden Boat
Backyard Boatbuilder: How to Build Your Own Wooden Boat
by John Welsford
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John Welsford is internationally famous not only for his transatlantic racing designs, but also for his elegant, traditional-looking wooden boat designs for home boatbuilders. They are primarily of the "lapstrake"style-with overlapping planks that create... (read more)

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Complete Canvasworkers Guide 2ND Edition How To Out
Complete Canvasworkers Guide 2ND Edition How To Out
by Jim Grant
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Now completely revised and updated, and expanded by more than fifty percent, The Complete Canvasworker's Guide, Second Edition, brings you Jim Grant's thorough step-by-step approach to constructing a nearly endless variety of attractive and functional... (read more)

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Boats with an Open Mind: Seventy-Five Unconventional Designs and Concepts
Boats with an Open Mind: Seventy-Five Unconventional Designs and Concepts
by Philip C. Bolger
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Here are 75 novel and wonderful boats--some strange, some beautiful, all of them paragons of Philip Bolger's form-follows-function design philosophy. A planing microtrawler; a glass-galleried, beachable birdwatching boat; a fully enclosed ocean-cruising... (read more)

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Canoe and Kayak Building the Light and Easy Way: How to Build Tough, Super-Safe Boats in Kevlar, Carbon, or Fiberglass
Canoe and Kayak Building the Light and Easy Way: How to Build Tough, Super-Safe Boats in Kevlar, Carbon, or Fiberglass
by Sam Rizzetta
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The first quick-and-easy composite construction method for canoes and kayaks This book is certain to appeal to any paddler with a DIY bent. Master craftsman Sam Rizzetta presents three attractive innovations: a new building method that makes Kevlar and... (read more)

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The Brightwork Companion: Tried-And-True Methods and Stronly Held Opinions in Thirteen and One-Half Chapters
The Brightwork Companion: Tried-And-True Methods and Stronly Held Opinions in Thirteen and One-Half Chapters
by Rebecca Wittman
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"The things that are vital and honorable about varnishing are the parts that we do with our hearts, our hands, and that portion of our brain that houses common sense. These are what never change, the things that will prevail."--from the Introduction From... (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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A re-creation of a time of fantastic wealth through never-before-seen photographs. 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... (read more)

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Build Your Own Boat
Build Your Own Boat
by Ian Nicolson
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This book is a must for the amateur who wants to be convinced that he can confidently approach the prospect of building his own dream boat. With the support of many diagrams and sketches, Ian Nicolson teaches all the skills necessary to create anything... (read more)

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Boat Joinery and Cabinet Making Simplified
Boat Joinery and Cabinet Making Simplified
by Fred P. Bingham
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Drawing upon his more than 60 years' experience as a boatbuilder/designer, Fred Bingham has revamped his classic Practical Yacht Joinery to appeal to a whole new generation of boaters. This new edition of the book Yachting called "an absolute necessity... (read more)

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Simple Yacht Design
Simple Yacht Design
by Ian Nicolson
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Did you know that a boat: Roughly doubles in price for every 5ft increase in length?Has a maximum displacement speed of 1.4Vsailing length?Costs very approximately three times the price of the materials used to make her?Will need an engines with at least... (read more)

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