This vintage book is a complete and accessible guide to boat construction, with full instructions for designing and building punts, skiffs, canoes, sailing boats, and more. With detailed working drawings and simple, step-by-step instructions, this volume is ideal for those with little previous experience, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: "Introductory-Designing", "Tools and Materia...
The skill necessary to build a boat of some form which will be serviceable and pleasurable is possessed by few amateurs, and as boats and canoes are now so extensively used in athletic and other amusements, and the followers of the rod and gun ¿nd them almost indispensable in certain varieties of these pursuits, no doubt very many amateurs would like a little information which would assist them to construct such things. The reason, perhaps, wh...
Dieses Werk aus dem Jahre 1901 beschreibt auf sehr anschauliche Weise die Methoden des Baus kleinerer Boote, die dazu nötigen Arbeitswerkzeuge und Materialien, sowie die Konstruktion der verschiedenen Modelle. Zahlreiche Illustrationen untermalen diese Ausführungen.
Hierbei handelt es sich um eine englischsprachige Ausgabe.
Originally published in 1880. Contains full and detailed instructions for designing and building punts, shooting punts, skiffs, canoes, sailing boats etc. Well illustrated with working diagrams. Many of the earliest sailing books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, ...
This book is a complete and accessible guide to boat construction, with full instructions for designing and building punts, skiffs, canoes, sailing boats, and more. With detailed working drawings and simple, step-by-step instructions, this volume is ideal for those with little previous experience, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: "Introductory-Designing", "Tools and Materials", "Pu...