Pete Culler on Wooden Boats: Boat Design, Building, Repair, and Use

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Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, R.D. "Pete" Culler was one of a triumvirate of small-boat authorities—along with John Gardner and Howard Chapelle—whose writings kept traditional wooden-boat design and building alive in America. Culler was also a superlative boat designer and builder in his own right. His designs are classic melds of elegance and utility, and his workmanship is akin to artistry.

Collected here is the best of Pete Culler, including the complete texts of his own two classic books—Skiffs & Schooners and Boats, Oars, and Rowing—along with articles from The Mariner's Catalogs and commentaries from Pete Culler's Boats: The Complete Design Catalog.

A blend of clarity, good sense, insight, and wry humor, Culler's writing helped launch the wooden boat revival and inspired a generation of enthusiasts. He remains an unimpeachable authority on the design, building, and use of traditional small boats, and his collected wit and wisdom is a vital reference and a source of unending pleasure and fascination for builders and owners of small wooden boats.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Peter T. Varmilya | Introduction by John Burke

SKIFFS and SCHOONERS
Preface | Experience Starts When You Begin | Building the Spray | Boatbuilding | Materials | Tools | Flat Bottoms | File Bottoms | Lapstrake | Carvel Planking | Engines, Oars, and Sails | The Sprit Rig | Other Rigs, Including the Ketch | The Schooner Rig | Water, Stoves, Anchors, Fuel, Centerboards, and Cabins | Paints, Oils, and Goo | Sailors, Old and Young

BOATS, OARS, and ROWING
Dedication | Preface | Acknowledgments | The Pleasures of Rowing | Rowing Craft | Oars and Oarmaking | Oarlocks and Other Rowing Gear | Notes on Rowing | Double-Paddle Canoes | A Cruise in a Pulling Boat

ARTICLES
Old Ways Work | Boatbuilding... Used to Be | On Rowing and Boats | Sand Dolly | Wheelbarrow Boat | What Makes Classics Real | Fish Oil, Sour Milk, and Stale Beer | The Mallets Cried, Hollered, Bellowed, and Chirped | Natural Knees | Motorboats for the Masses | Tarred Rigging and Stropped Blocks

DESIGN COMMENTARIES
Race Point Surfboard Coskata | Wherry Yawl for a Schooner | Yawlboat for Integrity | Two Steam Launches | Fast Outboard Launch | Concordia Towboat Gracie III | Baltimore Clipper Schooner Lizard King

Boat Plans by R.D. Culler | Index

John Burke spent his formative years as a neighbor of Pete Culler in Hyannis, Massachusetts, learning the lore of boat design and building from the master craftsman and becoming a lifelong friend. Burke has since been a professional boatbuilder and a correspondent to WoodenBoat Magazine. He works as a captain for Maine State Ferry Service.

Pete Culler on Wooden Boats: Boat Design, Building, Repair, and Use