Practical Boat Building for Amateurs

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 Materials”, “Punts”, “Clench-Built Skiffs”, “The Rob Roy Canoe”, “The Sailing Boat”, “Canadian Bateau—Canvas Canoe—American Shooting Punt”, etc.