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
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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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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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A Cinderella canoe adapted for rowing
Cinderella, adapted for rowing by Martin Wellby
I can’t claim this is about any kind of traditional boat, but I think I can safely say that rowing is a traditional activity, that more people should do it and that this post is about a neat and inexpensive way of equipping yourself to do it. These photos show a very sweetly made canoe built to my Cinderella design that has been adapted in a couple of useful ways.
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