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Everything you need to know to build a sailboat, a rowboat, a motorboat, a canoe, and more! Yes, you can build a boat! it's one of the most enjoyable, rewarding things you can do. This book contains full building plans for 6 different boats, including a 14 foot sailboat, a 2 person canoe, 2 rowboats, and 2 motorboats. And it contains instructions for making your own oars, making your own sails, and a wealth of other practical information. This book takes the complete novicearmed only with a gleam in the eye, and a basic knowledge of hammer, saw, and screwdriverand walks him or her through the process of building a boat. The basic materials are easily available from any lumberyard plywood, boards, nails, and wood glue. The process is simple, the result is extraordinaryyour own boat, ready to take you over the water, built in your spare time, for a fraction of the cost of buying a factory built boring! boat. And the sense of accomplishment is beyond compare. Full plans and detailed step by step instructions are given, with over one hundred drawings and photographs. Those instructions can be applied to any of the plans included for a sailboat, a motorboat, a rowboat, or a canoe. This book goes beyond just building your boat it includes chapters on making your own oars and sails making kick up rudders, pivoting leeboards, flotation compartments, and hatches tips for cartopping and trailering your boat information on fixing used outboard engines and much more. It is an introductory book that will continue to be pored over as the beginner transforms himself or herself into an experienced boatbuilder. Also included are a catalog of 23 other boat designs for dreaming over, a guide to boatbuilding sites on the web, a guide to materials suppliers, and a bibliography of further reading. A great book for families, for scout groups, for school shop classes, for anyone who enjoys messing about in boats. Building plans included for Mayfly 14' sailboat Piragua 13' pirogue, or simple canoe QT Skiff rowing version 13' rowboat QT Skiff motor version 13' motorboat Jonsboat 16' jonboat Robote 14' taped seam rowboat About the Author Jim Michalak is a former aerospace engineer who has become one of the foremost designers of homebuilt boats in America. He lives in Lebanon, Illinois.
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