Job Lot *9 BOAT BUILDING BOOKS Clinker Lofting Wood Fibreglass Strip Plank Canoe
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9 BOAT BUILDING BOOKS & MANUALS A useful collection of nine specialist boat-building books and practical manuals, covering traditional and modern construction techniques including clinker construction, strip planking, cedar strip building, chine boats, lofting, wooden boat building and fibreglass construction. The lot comprises: • Clenched Lap or Clinker — Eric McKee — National Maritime Museum, 1972 (2 copies) • A Manual of Strip Plank Construction Techniques — Paul Fisher — Selway Fisher Design, First Edition 1993 • Cedar Strip Builder's Manual — Joseph Thompson Timber Importers • Lofting — Allan H. Vaitses — International Marine Publishing, 1980 • Building Chine Boats — Michael Verney — Yachting Monthly, Revised Edition 1962 • Boat Building in Wood: From Lofting to Launching — Colin Faggetter — 1995 • Building Small Boats, Surf Craft and Canoes in Fibreglass — Jeff Toghill & John Flett — 1982 • Boat Modeling with Dynamite Payson — Harold “Dynamite” Payson — 1989 Together these form an interesting boat-builder's reference collection, ranging from traditional clinker and wooden construction through strip-plank and fibreglass techniques, with technical illustrations, diagrams and practical construction information throughout. The books are used and vary in condition, with age-related wear, marks, rubbing and other signs of previous use. Building Chine Boats has particularly noticeable external marking and an old classification label. Please study all photographs carefully as t
- Publisher: Various
- Binding: Hardcover
- Condition: Good
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