Tracks the history of the Seabright, New Jersey, skiffs used for fishing up and down the eastern coast from Maine to Florida and shows, in illustrations and text, the local development, details of construction, and materials used in building them.
This book offers detailed plans and instructions for building a simple boat at low cost with easily obtainable materials and basic hand tools. The skiff in this manual is 15 feet in length, can hold two adults or several children, and is adaptable for oars, sail, or a small outboard engine. A fun way to spend a weekend and get an excellent small ...
A step-by-step guide to building a classic working boat, the menhaden steamer. Modeler Steve Rogers guides the reader through the complete process, hull master to rigging, for building a 1/2-inch scale, 56-inch model of this wonderful fishing boat. The result will be a work of art that will find a welcome place in any collection.
Taken from Benford's original drawings and reduced in scale, the plans for each of the 15 small boats included in this collection are nevertheless complete and ready for lofting full size. The boats range in size from 7' to 18' and can be varied for rowing, sailing, or small outboard engine.
Instructions for building a plywood-epoxy, vee-bottomed sea skiff, written by a professional boatbuilder. Dozens have been built by amateurs worldwide since 1991.
When Oliver Allyn was growing up in the midst of Illinois cornfields and backyard hollyhocks, his persistent and incongruous dream was to build and sail his own boat. Eventually, he fulfilled that dream many times and in many ways. but his most rewarding sailing adventure took three years and two boats to sail 52 miles down the Connecticut River. ...
There is no more affordable, easily built, or utilitarian boat than the flat-bottom skiff. This profile of the skiff offers a look at its many varieties, including rowing skiffs, sailing skiffs, and skiffs designed for outboard power, as well as those suitable for use as yacht tenders, for fishing, for exploring, and for along-shore cruising. ...
Based on the Alton Wallace 18' round-bilged outboard skiff known as the West Pointer, the Ocean Pointer is a bit larger, and a significantly drier boat with a sweeping sheer, able to accommodate a 25-75 hp outboard. Designer/builder David Stimson created this boat to be strip-built (narrow pieces of wood), which is an especially forgiving building ...
This work describes wooden boatbuilding at its most pleasurable - a traditional boat constructed with solid planking, copper clench nails, bronze fittings and three-strand rope. Written with the first-time builder in mind, this boat is ideal for those new to traditional wooden construction. Written by the designer of the boat, the book moves ...
The wooden dinghy is symbolic of the people and landscape of the North Atlantic coast: hard working, pragmatic, picturesque, and rugged. These small boats, including prams, skiffs, and tenders, can be rudimentary in their design or works of exceptional craftsmanship. They provide safe passage between the docks, floats, and shore, and the lobster ...
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