Practical Boat Building for Amateurs – Chapter 2, in which the authors discuss tools and materials. The tools include frames and a rather magnificent steam kiln.
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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
ABE Books sometimes has a few copies of this collectable book. Check now:
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Ian Heard watercolours and prints at NMM Cornwall
The National Maritime Museum Cornwall is putting on a new exhibition of twelve original watercolours and seven prints of Cornwall and Devon working craft by Ian Heard.
The show, which runs from 3rd April, includes a newly commissioned painting of a 19th century Gorran Haven Crabber currently being built in Fowey, and based on the only remaining craft of her type. The painting will be Continue reading “Ian Heard watercolours and prints at NMM Cornwall”