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  • Understanding Boat Design

    • ASIN: 0070076944
    • ISBN: 0070076944
    • Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

    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 over a sloop? Why does one sailor swear by a full keel, while others won't have anything but a fin ... [Read More]

  • Building Small Boats

    • ASIN: 0937822507
    • ISBN: 0937822507
    • Brand: Brand: Wooden Boat Publications
    • Manufacturer: Wooden Boat Publications

    For years Greg has been teaching the fundamentals here at our WoodenBoat School. Greg's talent for relaying this experience into the written word has resulted in a text with a straight-forward friendly approach, including helpful drawings and photographs. The combination will drive-home the lessons. Building Small Boats is the ideal book for the co... [Read More]

  • Tugboats Illustrated: History, Technology, Seamanship

    • ASIN: 0393069311
    • ISBN: 0393069311
    • Brand: W W Norton Company
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    A gorgeously detailed guide to the evolution, design, and role of tugboats, from the earliest days of steam to today’s most advanced ocean-going workboats.From river to harbor to ocean, tugboats are among the most ubiquitous but underappreciated craft afloat. Whether maneuvering ships out from between tight harbor finger piers, pushing rafts of f... [Read More]

  • Ships' Fastenings: From Sewn Boat to Steamship (Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series)

    • ASIN: 1585444510
    • ISBN: 1585444510
    • Brand: Brand: Texas AM University Press
    • Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press

    Without effective and durable hull fastenings, boats and ships—from the earliest days of seafaring through the twentieth century—could not have plied the seas. In Ships’ Fastenings, this central element of boat construction receives its first detailed study. Author Michael McCarthy offers a fascinating, thorough description of a range from se... [Read More]

  • Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems

    • ASIN: 0071432388
    • ISBN: 9780071432382
    • Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

    The boatowner's foremost troubleshooting guide, now better than ever If it's on a boat and it has screws, wires, or moving parts, it's covered in Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual. When you leave the dock with this book aboard, you have at your fingertips the best and most comprehensive advice on: Battery technologies 12- and 24-volt DC... [Read More]

  • Boatbuilding for Beginners (and Beyond): Everything You Need to Know to Build a Sailboat, a Rowboat, a Motorboat, a Canoe, and More!

    • UPC: 783324892628
    • ASIN: 1891369296
    • ISBN: 1891369296
    • Brand: Brand: Breakaway Books
    • Manufacturer: Breakaway Books

    This book takes the complete novice--armed only with a gleam in the eye, and a basic knowledge of hammer, saw, and screwdriver--and walks him or her through the process of building a boat. The only materials needed are easily available from any lumberyard: plywood, 2x4s, nails, and wood glue. The process is simple, the result is extraordinary--your... [Read More]

  • How to Build Glued-Lapstrake Wooden Boats

    • ASIN: 0937822582
    • ISBN: 0937822582
    • Brand: Brand: Wooden Boat Publications
    • Manufacturer: Wooden Boat Publications

    When you finish reading this book, you?ll understand just what you need to do to build a terrific boat. A boat that is lightweight, forever appealing to the eye, a boat that doesn?t leak and doesn?t require much in the way of upkeep. And, because the book is clearly written and heavily illustrated with hundreds of drawings and hundreds of photograp... [Read More]

  • Boatbuilding Manual, Fifth Edition

    • ASIN: 0071628347
    • ISBN: 0071628347
    • Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

    Get the latest boatbuilding tips from this updated classic Since its first publication in 1970, Boatbuilding Manual has become the standard reference in boatbuilding and boat design schools, in the offices of professional builders, and in the basement workshops of home builders. No other boatbuilding text has simultaneously served the disparate nee... [Read More]

  • Ultrasimple Boat Building: 17 Plywood Boats Anyone Can Build

    • ASIN: 0071477926
    • ISBN: 0071477926
    • Brand: Atkin, Gavin
    • Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

    The first complete how-to guide for building the latest generation of quick and easy boats In Ultrasimple Boatbuilding, renowned designer Gavin Atkin shows you how to create elegant, seaworthy plywood boats with a minimum of time, experience, and expense. Using clearly written and illustrated step-by-step instructions, Atkin explains the basics of ... [Read More]

  • The Battleship Bismarck (Anatomy of The Ship)

    • ASIN: 1472828887
    • ISBN: 1472828887
    • Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing

    The Bismarck is perhaps the most famous--and notorious--warship ever built. Completed in 1941, the 45,000-ton German battleship sank HMS Hood, the pride of the British Royal Navy, during one of the most sensational encounters in naval history. Following the sinking, Bismarck was chased around the North Atlantic by many units of the Royal Navy. She ... [Read More]

  • The Outboard Boater's Handbook: Advanced Seamanship and Practical Skills

    • ASIN: 0070230536
    • ISBN: 0070230536
    • Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

    This comprehensive manual shows you how to go places and do things you never thought possible in a small outboard motorboat. A well-designed ruggedly built 17-footer, for instance, can fish offshore, circumnavigate Lake Superior, and crisscross the continent on inland waterways or on a trailer pulled by the family car. Small outboards are among the... [Read More]

  • Ted Brewer Explains Sailboat Design

    • ASIN: 0877421935
    • ISBN: 0877421935
    • Brand: Brand: Intl Marine Pub Co
    • Manufacturer: Intl Marine Pub Co

    Ted Brewers own words on sailboat design

  • Architectura Navalis Mercatoria: The Classic of Eighteenth-Century Naval Architecture (Dover Maritime)

    • ASIN: 0486451550
    • ISBN: 0486451550
    • Brand: Chapman, Fredrik Henrik Af
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    First published in 1768, this remarkable collection of sophisticated line drawings offers a fascinating look at the maritime world of the eighteenth century, documenting merchant and naval ships from various countries. Seventy detailed illustrations chart vessel dimensions, crew size, storage capabilities, and manner of rigging for packet ships, pl... [Read More]

  • British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War

    • ASIN: 1591140811
    • ISBN: 1591140811
    • Manufacturer: Naval Institute Press

    A Proceedings Magazine 2010 Notable Naval BookNoted historian Norman Friedman provides the first detailed study of the Royal Navy's destroyer from its predecessors from the 1880s to the 1930s, and its use in both World Wars. He shows how the Royal Navy developed the torpedo and its surface carrier--the destroyer--as both an offensive and defensive ... [Read More]

  • The Cruising Multihull

    • ASIN: 0070698686
    • ISBN: 0070698686
    • Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

    Long typecast as the hotrods of the sea--fast but dangerous--modern cruising multihulls actually are among the safest and most comfortable cruising sailboats available. Modern multihulls offer significant advantages over single-hull sailboats: They sail faster, have more living space, they're more comfortable, more stable, they can sail safely in m... [Read More]

  • Steel Boat Building: From Plans to Bare Hull

    • ASIN: 0877421897
    • ISBN: 0877421897
    • Brand: Brand: Intl Marine Pub
    • Manufacturer: Intl Marine Pub Co

    Steel Boat Building: From Plans to Bare Hull.

  • The Liveaboard Report: A Boat Dweller's Guide to What Works and What Doesn't

    • ASIN: 0070710910
    • ISBN: 0070710910
    • Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

    What do you get when an ex-NASA engineer and statistician turned bestselling how-to-writer decides to move aboard a boat? The Liveaboard Report, a statistical analysis filled with bar charts and pie graphs that quantifies what works and what doesn't for a representative sampling of liveaboard boaters. Charlie Wing interviewed 71 liveaboards of all ... [Read More]

  • Metal Corrosion in Boats: The Prevention of Metal Corrosion in Hulls, Engines, Rigging and Fittings

    • ASIN: 0877422346
    • ISBN: 0877422346
    • Brand: Brand: Intl Marine Pub Co
    • Manufacturer: Intl Marine Pub

    Book by Warren, Nigel

  • Historic Sailing Ships Coloring Book

    • UPC: 800759235841
    • ASIN: 048623584X
    • ISBN: 048623584X
    • Brand: Dover
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    The Age of Sail spread over most of human history; with its decline passed some of the most beautiful engineering and aesthetic creations ever seen. See them sail the ocean once again, and color them as vividly brilliant as ever in this survey of historical sailing ships coloring book.Thirty-four large illustrations (including nine double-page spre... [Read More]

  • From A Bare Hull: How To Build A Sailboat

    • ASIN: 0920256317
    • ISBN: 0920256317
    • Manufacturer: Albatross

    A complete handbook on how to select and finish out a fiberglass hull and deck. A complete step-by-step guide covering every aspect of fiberglass boat completion--woodworking, electrical, plumbing and hardware installation--with hundreds of tips on how to save time and money during construction as well as purchase. With over 100,000 copies in print... [Read More]

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