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title: "Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction"
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# Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction

**Brand:** howard i. chapelle
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- **What is this?** Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction by howard i. chapelle
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## Customer Reviews

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    Very good manual for old fashioned wooden boat building
  

*by D***H on Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2015*

This is a great text (one of the best) to use for specific issues as you approach a given boatbuilding task (and by boatbuilding I mean the old fashioned way). it is not a very good 'how-to book' of the sort that will give you an overview and make you want to go out and lay down a keep or something. but if you need to know a task very focussed and involving the old methods, this will give you that. Just don't think you will use it to read cover to cover on a chilly autumn evening as you dream about building a boat in your backyard once the weather turns.

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    Excellent
  

*by B***N on Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2013*

While this book - often described as a "classic" - is not an easy book, it is also a wonderful book for anyone who is interested in wooden boats and building or repairing wooden boats. i liked this book for two major reasons. The first is easy to understand - it is one of the great books written by one of the great builders. The second reason is more bizarre. I love the style of a past generation. The writing style, the structure of the written page is a thing of beauty. This also means that a new generation brought up on gr8 txt will find this too complicated to understand. I would heartiy recommend that such a person do buy this book - not only will you have the advice on repairing or creating your wooden boat, but your language skills will have been developed further.

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    classical wooden boat building
  

*by P***T on Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2012*

This comprehensive DIY book is over 70 years old and therefore brings us back to the times before the plastic revolution in boat building. Wooden boats have been built for thousands of years and I am very happy to suggest both to the enthousiastic wooden boat connoisseur as well as to the amateur the authentic materials and working ways of boat building that are thoroughly covered in this book. The tools are traditional, instructions are easy to follow and the boats presented are of classical design and a delight to the eyes. I am convinced that the tested designs will perform reliably on the waters that they are designed for. The book of course is excellent for even just reading, should you not yet contemplate the idea to actually build a boat from wood yourself.

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