Blueberry: A Boat of the Connecticut Shoreline
 A unique look at the experience of building a boat: Working with the unorthodox naval architect Philip Bolger, Mr Hume designed and then built a very cute little gaff-rigged cutter named "Blueberry." This book is Hume's account of the design [... more]
$15.00
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Yacht Designing and Planning
Author: Howard Irving Chapelle Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780393031690 ISBN: 0393031691 Number Of Pages: 376 Publication Date: 1980-03-31 [... more]
$29.95
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Boat Building
Author: Howard Irving Chapelle Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780393031133 ISBN: 0393031136 Number Of Pages: 1 Publication Date: 1980-01-31 [... more]
$37.95
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Understanding Boat Design
Too detailed, yet not detailed enough: I was disappointed in this book. I expected a well thought out, easy to understand description. The author starts out defining some terms, but omits others, and then describes things using undefined terms. By his [... more]
$16.95
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Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat ...
The reference on wooden boatbuilding: Pure and simple. I'm a professional, doing repairs on wooden workboats and I do refer to it whenever I'm stumped. Not the easiest read, not completely user-friendly.....well, I'll let you in on a little secret; [... more]
$39.95
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The Workboats of Smith Island
An elegant little account of watermen and their boats.: Smith Island is the preserve of some of the most individualistic Americans to be found anywhere. Cowboys of the Bay. Isolated and dependent upon small boats for commerce, transportation, livelyhood [... more]
$32.00
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American Small Sailing Craft
classic: This is the classic book about classic boats. I bought it because of my interest in one particular boat and ended up reading it cover to cover. The author put together a large part of the Smithsonian's collection of boat plans and definitely [... more]
$40.00
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The American Fishing Schooners: 1825-1935
The ultimate history of the design of the fishing schooners.: Howard Chapelle, the dean of American watercraft historians completed this final work a few years before his death. Not particularly rich in "sea lore", it is nonetheless the [... more]
$50.00
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How to Build a Wooden Boat
Build it Bud's Way!!: The day I first met the late New England boat builder Bud McIntosh he was down in the hold of a schooner's hull setting keel bolts--and singing Homer's Iliad in ancient Greek. He stopped when he saw me peaking through a gap in the [... more]
$36.00
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Understanding Rigs and Rigging
Too detailed, yet not detailed enough: I was disappointed in this book. I expected a well thought out, easy to understand description. The author starts out defining some terms, but omits others, and then describes things using undefined terms. By his [... more]
$24.95
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