Building Classic Small Craft: Complete Plans and Instructions for 47 Boats

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"Ought to be considered the Bible on the subject." —Cruising World

As Associate Curator of Small Craft at Mystic Seaport Museum from 1969 to 1995, John Gardner sought out the best examples of classic wooden boats and then measured them, dreq them, and researched their histories.

Building Classic Small Craft offers his meticulous plans and clear and complete instructions for building 47 beautiful, functional wooden boats for oar, motor, and sail, including dories, peapods, Sea Bright skiffs, wherries, Rangeley boats, and many others—a lifetime's worth of admirable projects that any amateur builder can tackle successfully.

John Gardner was the acknowledged "dean of small craft," and Building Classic Small Craft is an enduring expression of his philosophy, his knowledge, and his work. All the information you need to build these boats os here; no other plans are necessary.

Table of Contents

In Memoriam

Building Classic Small Craft, Volume 1

Preface | Introduction

1. The Common Punt
2. L. Francis Herreshoff's Pram
3. A Plywood Pram
4. A Sailing Flattie
5. A Chamberlain Skiff
6. A Modified Quincy Skiff
7. A Lowell Dory Skiff
8. A Semi-Dory
9. A Car-Top Semi-Dory
10. The Dory
11. A Modified Swampscott Dory
12. A North Shore Surf Dory
13. The Chamberlain Gunning Dory
14. The Beachcomber-Alpha Dory
15. A Sharpie
16. The Peapod
17. A Spurling Rowboat
18. The St. Lawrence River Skiff
19. The Rangeley Boat
20. The Wherry
21. The Origin of the Whitehall
22. A Whitehall Pulling Boat
23. The Sea Bright Skiff
24. The Barnegat Sneakbox

Appendix: Notes on Boatbuilding Materials

More Building Classic Small Craft

Preface

1. Herreshoff Rowboat and Modified McInnis Bateau
2. Pilot Gig
3. Merrymeeting Bay Duckboat
4. 15-Foot Flattie Skiff
5. Two 8-Foot Prams
6. Four Canoes
7. Down East Workboat
8. Yacht Tenders
9. Sea Bright Skiff
10. Boston Fishing Power Dories
11. Matinicus Peapod
12. Two Garveys
13. Clamming Skiff
14. 16-Foot Swampscott Dory
15. Mower Dory
16. Boatbuilders' Planes

Bibliography | Index

Building Classic Small Craft: Complete Plans and Instructions for 47 Boats