Book Building Small Boats Product Code: khboa0367d

Building small boats cover carvel and traditional lapstrake (clinker) boatbuilding for under 25-footers. Probably the best book in this niche. PB. 350pp.

Contents:

• A boat and a shop to build it in
• Tools
• Home-made tools
• Wood for boatbuilding
• Fastenings
• Glues, paints, and potions
• Lofting demystified
• The stem
• The keel
• The moulds and the transom
• Setup
• The art of bending frames
• Lining off the hull
• Planking stock
• Carvel planking
• Lapstrake Planking
• Centreboard, centreboard trunk, and rudder
• Stiffening the hull
• Interior work
• Exterior work
• The deck
• Solid-wood spars
• What looks good
• The builder's half model