Build Your Own Boat: Building and Fitting Out for Sail and Power

Sports & Outdoors

NICOLSON, Ian

Water Sports

Allen& Unwin

Designer's notebook

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Adlard Coles Nautical

Getting afloat need not be difficult or expensive if you were to build your own boat. Most of the boats described here are suitable for beginners, and are small and light enough to be carried on a car roof rack. They can be taken to the sea, river, canal or lake; they are cheap and easy to build.  In this revised edition of a classic manual, Ian Nicolson provides clear and useful advice on how to effectively build a boat from scratch. You will find different choices, including a simple child's boat (which is well able to carry an adult), a fast racing dinghy, or a general purpose rowing boat which will take an outboard motor or basic sail (and is suitable for estuary fishing).  Ian Nicolson is one of the most prolific yachting writers, being a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, a previous partner in A. Mylne & Co. and the founder of Nicolson-Hughes Sails. Vastly experienced and well respected in the field, the author guides would-be boatbuilders through the different processes with his well-known, authoritative and easy to follow drawings.  So why not build yourself a dinghy for less than the cost of a second-hand one?

Build a Simple Dinghy

Science & Math

Reynolds, Alasdair

Technology

UNKNO

<p>Offers advice on making additions and modifications in order to customize a yacht and includes diagrams and instructions</p>

Designers Notebook

Adlard Coles

Small Steel Craft: Design, Construction, and Maintenance. (1971). 206P

Scribner

Surveying Small Craft is the standard reference work for surveying all types of small boats. Now revised, expanded, and completely brought up to date, it will be an indispensable tool for professional surveyors and potential buyers of secondhand boats, helping them to spot important features and identify potential problems.

Surveying small craft

Coles

<p>Gives advice on improving performance under sail, adding extra bunks, stowing nets, building tables, book racks, and lockers, increasing ventilation, and adding safety equipment</p>

Improve Your Own Boat/Projects and Tips for the Practical Boat Owner

Transportation

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Designer's Notebook

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 from a small cruiser to an impressive 75-foot yacht.

Build Your Own Boat: Building and Fitting-Out for Sail or Power

W.W.Norton&Company

This practical book is written for all those sailing and boat-building enthusiasts who take pleasure in making improvements to their craft. As every boat owner knows, the more you sail, the more conscious you become of small design faults, safety deficiencies, performance problems, or simply ways in which the boat could be more efficiently maintained. This handbook tells you how to tackles such problems, how to carry out the work with confidence, fully aware of the potential pitfalls and armed with plenty of sound, step-by-step practical advice. A whole range of exciting projects are featured―some simple, others more complex―but none of which require boatyard expertise. As the author makes clear, the experience of doing the work yourself is rewarding and fun, and it will add to the satisfaction derived from the improvements themselves.

Improve Your Own Boat: Projects and Tips for the Practical Boat Builder

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