Modern Boat Building

Edwin Monk

• Publisher: Miller Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781447411130
• eBook ISBN: 9781473387010

A fantastic comprehensive guide to building boats for the amateurs and professionals alike. It will help the amateur to turn out a credible piece of work and aid the apprentice boat builder in learning his trade. If the instructions and methods within this book are followed carefully they will result in well constructed craft that will be seaworthy and weatherly. Profusely illustrated with diagrams and photographs.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Plans and Diagrams
• Illustrations
• Preface
• I. In General
• II. Boat Building Materials
• III. Lofting or “Laying Down”
• IV. Moulds and Patterns
• V. The V–Bottom Boat
• VI. Assembling the Frame and Setting up the Boat
• VII. Framing and Planking
• VIII. Finishing the Hull—Caulking, Painting and Varnishing
• IX. Deck Frame and Deck
• X. Finishing the Interior and Miscellaneous
• XI. Spars and Spar Making