Boat Building

John Brooks,Ruth Ann Hill  
Usually ships in 24 hours This glued-lapstrake mahogany plywood construction is highly desirable, giving you a strong and low maintenance boat. An excellent teacher, Brooks' attention to... [read more]

Howard I. Chapelle  
Usually ships in 24 hours Here's an intersting title written by Howard Chapelle, the nation's first and foremost historian, and it is an historical and anthropological look... [read more]

Fred P. Bingham  
Usually ships in 24 hours Boats have few straight lines, which makes building and equipping them a woodworking challenge. This handbook explains what to do. Includes shop... [read more]

Royal Lowell,Maynard Bray  
Usually ships in 24 hours This well-illustrated book includes lines for several boats (no offsets) including a 36-foot lobsterboat, a 32-foot sport cruiser, and a 26-foot sport... [read more]

Howard I. Chapelle,Jonathon Wilson  
Usually ships in 24 hours A practical handbook and boatshop assistant, designed and written to meet the needs of the builder, this manual covers the complete process... [read more]

Garth Graves  
Usually ships in 24 hours A clearly illustrated guide to doing woodwork on your boat will take you, step-by-step through weekend projects like these: constructing rails, coamings,... [read more]

Philip C. Bolger  
Usually ships in 24 hours Some of Bolger's boats are lovely, and some are painfully ugly, but all are intriguing. This book collects 75 of his inimitable... [read more]

John Gardner  
Usually ships in 24 hours This commemorative edition offers plans and instructions for building 47 beautiful, functional, wooden boats for oar, motor, or sail-- more than a... [read more]

Greg Rossel  
Usually ships in 24 hours Here's a book on traditional small wooden boat construction that makes the whole process seem simple. And it's not really that hard--... [read more]

Don Casey  
Usually ships in 24 hours An expert boat restorer takes on the issue of canvas and all its uses aboard. With just a home sewing machine, and... [read more]

Samual Devlin,Sam Devlin  
Usually ships in 24 hours The author maintains that stitch-and-glue construction can produce the same results as traditional plank-on-frame and cold-molded boatbuilding, but with a substantial savings... [read more]

David C. McIntosh,Samuel F. Manning  
Usually ships in 24 hours This book is about building large, traditionally planked wooden boats. Written for modern builders, it explains every step of this complex process,... [read more]

David Stimson  
Usually ships in 24 hours This is not a very big book but it's packed with information to build this great looking 19'6" Strip Built Skiff. Each... [read more]

Don Danenberg,Jim Wangard  
Usually ships in 24 hours This book is the first complete wooden runaboat how-to guide. Breathe life back into your classic wooden runabout with expert tips from... [read more]

Allan H. Vaitses  
Usually ships in 24 hours Lofting-- enlarging a boat's plans to full size-- is an essential step in the process of building a boat. It can also... [read more]

Peter H. Spectre,Wooden Boat Magazine  
Usually ships in 24 hours No matter the standard of finish-- utilitarian through show quality and anything in between-- the key to a successful marine finish is... [read more]

Edwin B. Leaf  
Usually ships in 24 hours Unlike building a model from a kit, where everything is figured out for you, scratchbuilding makes you the master of your model.... [read more]

Benjamin Mendlowitz,Maynard Bray  
Usually ships in 24 hours Benjamin Mendlowitz is the great yacht photographer of our time. His photos are always stunningly lit and artfully composed. Add to that... [read more]

Benjamin Mendlowitz,Maynard Bray  
Usually ships in 24 hours Another ninety wooden yachts photographed around the world by Benjamin Mendlowitz, with text by noted boat historian Maynard Bray. Beautiful images of... [read more]

Max Burns  
Usually ships in 24 hours Okay, so it isn't a boatbuilding book, but a dock is often an essential for boaters. Here you'll learn how to design,... [read more]

Harold Payson  
Usually ships in 24 hours Choose to build a Banks dory, a Friendship dory, or a Friendship dory skiff-- they're all every bit as realistic as the... [read more]

Reuel B. Parker  
Usually ships in 24 hours This is an inspiring and enlightening book about a uniquely American boat written by a true aficionado. It offers an excellent appreciation... [read more]

Charles G. Davis  
Usually ships in 24 hours An invaluable guide that offers detailed descriptions, drawings of masting, rigging and major fittings of American clippers and packets. This book also... [read more]

Jay S. Hanna  
Usually ships in 24 hours This is a guide to confidently carving a variety of decorative items for both boat and home-- carve sternboards, billetheads, trailboards, eagles,... [read more]

Richard Kolin  
Usually ships in 24 hours This book was written to take the first-time builder step by step through the building of Heidi, a traditional 12-foot skiff designed... [read more]

Benjamin Mendlowitz,Joel White  
Usually ships in 24 hours A celebration of the beauty of the wooden boat and the diversity of the woodenboat tradition. Twenty-four wooden boats are featured in... [read more]

Peter, H. Spectre,Woodenboat Publications  
Usually ships in 24 hours More than a dozen craftsmen show, in step-by-step fashion, how to make all kinds of necessities and luxuries for your boat and... [read more]

Harold H. Payson  
Usually ships in 24 hours The eleven "instant" boats discussed in this book require only modest tools and skills. In fact, if you can saw a penciled... [read more]

et al.,George B. Douglas and Joseph T. Higgins   Clearly written text, detailed illustrations, and full-size working plans provide novices and experienced model builders with all the information they need to... [read more]

Barry Thomas  
Usually ships in 24 hours The Mystic Seaport boat builder explains how he applied the experience of a Herreshoff ex-employee to the construction of a replica 11.5-ft... [read more]

John Gardner  
Usually ships in 24 hours This is the third of Gardner's boatbuilding books. While it offers plenty of practical infomation on building 16 boat designs, the technical... [read more]

John Gardner  
Usually ships in 24 hours Written just before his death in 1995, this book adds construction plans for 15 more boats to Gardner's legacy. Though smaller boats... [read more]

Here are tours of 21 homes, both newly built and renovations, that reflect the owners'... [read more]

Lon Schleining is a master woodworker and teacher, and here his wide experience shines through.... [read more]

Here's a well-illustrated guide that includes all the tools, both hand and power, found in... [read more]