Professional Boatbuilder

Since its first publication in 1970, Boatbuilding Manual has become the standard reference in boatbuilding and boat design schools, in the offices of professional builders, and in the basement workshops of home builders.

The boatowner's foremost troubleshooting guide, now better than ever. If it's on a boat and it has screws, wires, or moving parts, it's covered in Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual…

Here is a comprehensive gook on the how-to of amateur boat building - tools and their use, equipment, materials, and the right way to do each part of the job - plus double page prints of 12 complete boat plans. There's a boat here for every type of water, every interest: big, easy-to-follow, complete plans for a whole dozen of them: rowboards, outboards, sailboats, for hunters, fishermen, racers and just plain dry-sailors.