Boatbuilding Manual, Fifth Edition Hardcover – December 20, 2010

This is a textbook for an upcoming class. It is well written and does an excellent job of defining and describing all of the terms and techniques used in wooden boat building. The author also describes other boat building materials well enough to compare the advantages and disadvantages of each type. It is however, primarily a reference for building wooden boats. There are thorough discussions on the various species of wood and the appropriate applications in boat construction as well as the many types of fastening systems, finishing products, and hull forms. If you're going to build a wooden boat this book will provide an excellent foundation from which to make well informed decisions which in turn will save you time and money over the course of your project.

A friend showed me the first edition of this book and offered to loan it to me. After a careful scan through it I gratefully declined his offer because I knew I needed it for my library. Searched Amazon for the title and saw it is now in it's 5th edition with more pages and updated data. I received the book in 3 days and I just finished a cover to cover read. I told my wife that by page 40 I had learned enough answers to some of my questions that the purchase had already paid off. I am a model builder not a full size boat builder but the information applies to building a detailed scale model as well as a full size boat. Anybody contemplating building a wooden boat should have this in their library.

The book provides an excellent overview of the subject. As someone embarking on their first project I'd hardly anticipate being successful without this reference.That being said the author occasionally introduces anecdotal topics - which he then speaks on inconclusively. This can be distracting, but the book is never truly intimidating. It will be best used in conjunction with other, more specific, books that cover particular types of boats. Unlike many manuals more advanced boat builders will likely move beyond the need to reference this manual rather quickly while beginners like myself will doubtlessly find it indispensible.If you are planning on attempting to build a boat don't pass up this manual, otherwise it could safely be overlooked.

Good book, covers more than you want or need to know. One book does it all. If you want to build a boat, get this book first. I'm using this manual to rebuild my travel trailer (yes, my travel trailer) since books on travel trailers don't really deal with how to refurbish them, only just maintain them. This book has a lot to say about framing, electrical systems, plumbing, layouts, materials, and waterproofing. Travel trailers should be built like a boat since water damage has a lot do do with why travel trailers need renovation. I'm still reading and I'm still riveted. This is a very good book. I might change more than I first figured on after reading this manual. Lots of good info in this book.

A beautiful book even electronically. Nice information. I got it because I'm a woodpecker and interested in tools and building. Hope to build a small boat even though I'm not a boat or water guy. Just love anything made of wood. Lots of models in here. Great descriptions of how to build a boat and good history. I just got the book so can't comment about the whole book but so far, it was worth getting.

I had seen and wanted this book for many years, it is a great asset to my collection of books and has added greatly to the knowledge of how to build a boat in the traditional manner. This book provides great insights into traditional time honoured methods of boat building and broadens the knowledge base to an already fascinating subject.

so far the book has excellent information however the author should have started the book with a diagram pointing out the main parts of a boat. I am not familiar with technical terms of boats so it gets confusing reading it. I've had to look up terms that the author used when he could have just defined them in the first chapter. other than that it goes through selecting types of wood different tools you'll need different types of boats and it's a decent book.

It was a good informative book. Perhaps it's me but I read five different boat building books, this book included before I was able to understand how to draw lines from the table of offsets.Sometimes too basic and sometimes too advanced but interesting, historic and folkloric.

I like the book great quality and I got this a gift for my brother in law Aziz birthday and he is interested and dreaming to build a boat

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O livro realmente é um manual top, muito, muito, muito bom mesmo. Recomendo fortemente, é extremamente detalhado e tem uma riqueza de conceitos e detalhes que poucos livros proporcionam.

Great book, reminds me of a text book, all the basic information you need for a basic understanding so you can follow a set of plans and build a boat

For one of the best books for boat builder. All information you need, you will find in this book. Only thing I missed, the calculation of the boat hull, engine and rig. So I found several very interesting and unknown Work techniques, how to build boat parts, From the scaffold of the boat till the manufacturing of the fibre glas cover for the hull. This book should read everyone how plan to build his own boat. Great book with 'hundreds' of sketches and illustrations for a better understanding. I do not want to miss.