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Oare Creek at dusk 480 Ted Brewer Schooner Ian Heard painting

Dusk at Oare, Ted Brewer schooner, Ian Heard painting

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Practical Boat Building for Amateurs

For more chapters from Practical Boat Building for Amateurs, click on this link: http://intheboatshed.net/?s=amateurs

I have an ancient copy of the second edition of Practical Boat Building for Amateurs, as written by D Neison and updated long ago by Dixon Kemp, and I’ve decided to entertain you all by putting up each chapter as a series of scans. The book covers the building of several kinds of boats in a variety of levels of detail, including a punt, the Rob Roy canoe and the Canadian bateau, all of which will be of interest to many people who haven’t got a copy of the book themselves.

Tonight we have the cover, the frontispiece and Chapter 1.

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Follow the following links for the rest of Practical Boat Building for Amateurs:

Cover, frontispiece and Chapter 1 http://intheboatshed.net/?p=797
Chapter 2 http://intheboatshed.net/?p=816
Chapter 3 http://intheboatshed.net/?p=828
Chapter 4 http://intheboatshed.net/?p=839
Chapter 5 http://intheboatshed.net/?p=855
Chapter 6 http://intheboatshed.net/?p=872
Chapter 7 http://intheboatshed.net/?p=873

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Paul Gartside’s 24ft cutter

Caber Feidh

Caber Feidh’s keel bolts being fitted

I love these photos of 24-foot cutter Caber Feidh in the process of being built:

http://www.gartsideboats.com/gallery.php

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