Building a strip canoe

Engineering & Transportation

Gilpatrick,gIL

Transportation

Delorme Pub. Co

Building Snowshoes: Easy Step-By-Step Instructions and Patterns for 4 Snowshoe Styles

The Canoe Guide's Handbook: How to Plan and Guide a Trip for Two to Twelve People

Sports & Outdoors

Delorme

<p>This completely revised edition includes plans and patterns for eight well-proven designs. Step-by-step directions are accompanied by over 100 photographs plus illustrations. Gil's contemporary construction method augment the traditional wood strips with fiberglass and West System epoxy. The book includes an extensive listing of sources for lumber, tools and supplies. 128 pages.</p>

Building a Strip Canoe: Plans for Eight Canoes

Allagash, the story of Maine's legendary wilderness waterway

Travel

DeLorme Publishing Company

Building a Strip Canoe

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Allagash - the name itself evokes a sense of awe and adventure that only this wilderness area can convey. In Allagash, Gil Gilpatrick skillfully weaves fact and fiction to whisk you back through time on this legendary waterway. The fact in this exciting book is based on careful research - the fiction is based on facts that are known combined with careful speculation of what could have happened.  In Part One you are guided through the present-day Allagash region by Gilpatrick who has been a Master Maine Guide for over 40 years and has guided more than 100 trips through the Waterway. Significant historic and natural sights are highlighted and these points of interest are punctuated with anecdotes of personal experiences.  In Part Two you will learn about Maine’s colorful lumbering industry going back to the middle of the 1800’s. You will be impressed at what a sophisticated, well engineered operation it was back then. Like the western cowboy, the lumberjack’s life has always seemed rugged and adventurous - it was romanticized. The fact is, the lumberman’s life was filled with hard labor and countless life-and-death situations from sunup to sundown. You will be introduced to lumberjack characters like Mushrat Murphy, and be taken to lumber camps and onto the river to experience the life of the river driver.  Part Three is about the Bear Clan of the Wabnaki. The Native American’s use of the Allagash has been traced back to the end of the last ice-age. The account of their life along the river is literally sprinkled with colorful lore and legend. You will be introduced to the Great Spirit, or Manitou and to Gluscabe, a tribal hero. The beautiful Allagash was not untrodden wilderness. "It was a region that gave life to a people who husbanded its resources for thousands of years."

Allagash

Gil Gilpatrick

Part one of this book is an updated version of Gil’s classic book on building snowshoes. New in this new work is the lacing section which has all new and very clear step-by-step photos and descriptions of the lacing, or filling, process. All phases of snowshoe building are covered in detail including steam bending, shaping and assembly. There is also a chapter dealing with the special problems associated with making bearpaws. Instructions for making two different types of harnesses are also included. Part two contains detailed instructions on building snowshoe furniture. Included are two wood bending methods along with implicit instructions for constructing five diffferent pieces of snowshoe furntiure: Two sizes of snowshoe rocking chairs, a coffee table, an end table, a footstool, and a wood holder. Gil has included ideas for several other pieces that are possible using existing forms. Detailed plans and patterns are included. With 165 photos and 27 detailed drawings, 8 1/2" X 11"

Building Snowshoes and Snowshoe Furniture

Home Improvement & Design

G. Gilpatrick

The Allagash guide: What you need to know to canoe this famous waterway

Water Sports

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