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Backyard Boatbuilder: How to Build Your Own Wooden Boat
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John Welsford is internationally famous not only for his transatlantic racing designs, but also for his elegant, traditional-looking wooden boat designs for home boatbuilders. They are primarily of the lapstrake style-with overlapping planks that create a strong, light, curvy, drop-dead gorgeous boat. No book on the market offers both step-by-step instructions for making such boats and the building plans to work from. Welsford offers both of these with flying colors: plans to build half a dozen different boats, plus a detailed instructional section specifically on lapstrake building, with many photos and illustrations by the designer himself. For any hobbyist who wants to try building a lapstrake boat, this book will take him or her completely through the process, from a pile of lumber and a gleam in the eye to a graceful, gleaming wooden boat that is the jewel of any harbor she enters. Funny, humble, full of good tales and good advice, John Welsford is the perfect guide for the beginner or for anyone who has
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