Building StripPlanked Boats A comprehensive guide to stripplank boat building. Nick Schade shares his extensive experience in this book with an abundance of knowledge many useful tips and a liberal dose of good humour needed for tackling some of the more challenging projects. The book contains plenty of dialouge and plenty of diagrams and pictures to explain each process.
Good intro to little boats If you already have some solid basic woodworking skills and have been around canoes and kayaks enough to know basically what they look like this book contains most of the information you would need to build one including plans and offsets for what look like a couple of beauties. It also explains lofting in such a way that anyone who got a D or better in High School algebra should be able to get it. That said this is not the best book I've found on stripbuilding boats but it wouldn't be a bad choice at all.
One great book i really like this book I am in the process of finishing my own hand built canoe with very little tools thanks to this book.
great book I already had The Strip Built Sea Kayak by Nick Schade to compare this book to. It covered all the basic techniques of strip building but added a lot of details that were lacking in the other. A great compliment to other strip building books. It would be sufficient to build a boat on it's own. I only wish there were more pictures of the finished boats.
Building Srip Planked boats Goodclear and concise.author seems to know his stuff and is able to convey it in good clear form.pictures are clear and relavent to the subject at hand.
Good Read I'm currently makeing a caone out of this book. The first 150 pages tell you about cutting the wood and laying fiberglass. Things you need to do for all 3 of the boats that you can build from this book. It gives great detail on how to do stuff and the material needed. So If you want to know how to build a boat this is a 5 star book but if your going to actually build the boat its a little diffrent story. It gives you the form points so you can plot the points out on graph paper I did it using a program call CAD at school. I'm only 17 so my wood working knowledge is limited. But so far I'm doing great I have all the forms layed out and done. SO my only problem is It tells you how to make a one seat less than 150LB person caonoe. What grown man weighs 150LB and u cant take any gear with you even if you are in that range. Plus the seat is the bottom of the boat. It's more of a kayak than a canoe. Bottom line if you want to build a normal 2 person coanoe with about 500 LB max weight this is NOT your book. If you just want to build a little boat to dink around in and it says it will weigh around 15Lb and 10feet long so it will be light.I guess I was hoping that by canoe it meant a 16 foot 2 person canoe.
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good but too scattered There are many good points in this book but in my opinion it is trying to be too much for too wide an audience. In the process of covering multiple types of craft the gems are somewhat hidden. It was a good effort but I wish in this case it had been more linear in the presentation. Don't get me wrong I would buy it again.
Useful & Enjoyable Interesting to read full of good advice not too expensive. If you're still an armchair boatwright like me this book is worthwhile.
Creme de creme of kayak building.. The offsets for the boats covered are worth much more than the price if the book. Just take your time and draw the molds. Follow along with text and you'll do fine. Might also buy Nick's older book
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