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BUILDING THE SEA URCHIN.By Simon Watts. Paperback, 230mm x 302mm, including full-scale plans of all critical parts.
The Sea Urchin is a 10 1/2' rowing skiff that rows easily, is stable and can safely carry three adults. It makes a good tender to a large craft as wells as an excellent small craft for a cottage.
It is a design that rows well and can be rowed on or off beaches through a moderate breaking surf. It is equally at home in quiet waters with children at the oars.
For recreational use, it can be built of 3/8" plank; 1/2" would be more common for a working boat. For cold salt water, the planking can be pine and the knees, transom, seats and frame of red oak. For warm, fresh water, white cedar and white oak would be better choices.
No lofting is required, since it comes with all critical parts drawn full scale on the two 30" x 42" included plan sheets. The 24-page construction manual is profusely illustrated.
Requires intermediate woodworking skills.
NZ$80.00 + delivery.
HOW TO BUILD THE CATSPAW DINGHY.By Editors of Wooden Boat Magazine. Pbk, 210mm x 280mm 31 pages monochorme photographs and drawings for plans.
Building a Dinghy for Oar and Sail, this lovely dinghy is built along the lines of the Herreshoff Dinghy, but slightly larger. There are full instructions and many photographs to take you through the steps, plus very detailed text about what you need to do. Line drawings show the measurments and materials for the building.
NZ$23.50 + delivery.
THE DORY BOOKBy John Gardner. Pbk, 210mm x 275mm, 275 pages, monochrome photographs, drawings and lines plans.
The dory has long fascinated boat lovers. Of the simplest design, built from the most common materials, the dory has the ability to handle the most demanding tasks.
The variations on the basic dory design are legion. Over the years the dory has been duty as a fishing boat, a lumberman's log-driving batteau, a lifeboat, a recreational rowing boat, and a racing sailboat.
This book is the most comprehensive book on dories ever published. More than a decade in the making, it is at once a history of the dory, a practical handbook on how to build a dory, and a compendium of dory designs with full construction details. On these pages can be found details about some of the legendary dory types: Bank dories, Swampscotts, gunning dories, semi-dories, St. Pierre dories, flat-irons, dory skiffs, and batteaux. Its step-by-step illustrations of exceptional clarity make this book unique.
NZ$80.00 + delivery.
BUILDING THE CROSBY CATBOAT.By Barry Thomas. Paperback, 152mm x 228mm, 60 pages, 54 monochrome photographs and 7 foldout sheets for - Keel and Setting Up Plan - Lines and Offsets - Backbone and Timber Plan and Table of Scantlings - Construction Plans - Sail Plan - Arrangement and Spar plan.
This book preserves a unique form of traditional boatbuilding even as it serves as an instruction manual for a popular boat type, The Cape Cod catboat. In its pages, the twenty-foot catboat Breck Marshall takes shape as she is constructed in Mystic Seaport Museum's Boatshop in 1986-87.
The author, Barry Thomas, is the principle boatbuilder in the Museum's Boatshop. It is his conviction that traditional construction methods are essential to the replication of traditional boat types. In his 1977 book, Building the Herreshoff Dinghy, he demonstrated the lessons learned from a former Herreshoff employee.
In Building the Crosby Catboat Thomas presents nearly vanished knowledge of the methods used by the Crosby family to build catboats at Osterville, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, between 1880 and 1935. With support from the Catboat Association, Thomas and the Seaport's other boatbuilders studied existing boats and spoke with Crosby employees. But not until they interviewed Horace Manley Crosby, Jr., did they learn the secrets of Crosby construction methods. With Crosby's guidance, they were able to build a nearly exact replica of a classic Crosby Catboat, ca. 1900.
This book is not just a boatbuilding manual - though it is certainly that, offering a guidance that a knowledgable amateur boatbuilder can use to produce an authentic Cape Cod catboat. Of equal importance is its function in maritime preservation as a documentary record of previouly unwritten knowledge of a classic American boat type.
NZ$30.00 + delivery.
BUILDING THE NUTSHELL PRAM.By M Bray. Pbk, 210mm x 275mm, 31 pages, monochrome photographs.
A small book with loads of information to build this delightfull little dinghy.
From getting started to the tools, the type of wood that you should use for the best results. The book mentions buying the kitset but if one has the plans with all of the photos in the book it would be very easy to build it from these instructions.
NZ$25.00 + delivery.
THE MAKING OF TOM CAT.By William Garden, Hardback, 224mm x 286mm, 51 pages.
You'll enjoy this - part story, part boatbuilding manual - of a small, Beetle-cat-like-boat, from a legendary designer with probably more of his creations built than any other person. You'll find out not only how the 12'6" Tom Cat is built, but also how the design came to be from someone with a (long!) lifetime of fooling around with boats. From Toad's Landing, an island off British Columbia, it becomes quite apparent that whimsy and fun are not limited to young boys and girls.
NZ$50.00 + Delivery
HOW TO BUILD THE HAVEN 12 1/2-FOOTER.Instructions By Maynard Bray. Pbk, 210mm x 227mm, 63 pages, monochrome drawings and photographs by Kathy Bray and Anne Bray.
A keel/centreboard daysailer designed by Joel White, however the concept and detailing of this design were developed by Nathanael Herreshoff back in 1914. The design was generally known as the Herreshoff 12 1/2 footer or Buzzards bay 12 1/2 footer. Joel White has taken the original 12 1/2 and slightly modified the lines to reduce the draft by a foot, and to provide a centreboard to offset the loss of lateral plane. The goal while drawing the plans was to secure a shallower hull without losing the essence of N.G. Herreshoff's orginal design, and without creating any noticable change in performance.
The plans are available from WoodenBoat Store, the details for purchase are in the back of the book.
NZ$40.00 + delivery.
SHIP CONSTRUCTION, Sixth Edition.By D J Eyres. Pbk, 155mm x 235mm, 365 pages, monochrome line drawings.
This book is one of the standard texts for the subject topics for Masters and Mates, or classes 1 to 4 of SOLAS certificates of competency, up to the level of Extra Master in places where that certificate is still examined.
Ship Construction is a comprehensive text for students of naval architecture, ship building and construction, and for professional Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.
The author is former lecturer in Naval Architecture at Plymouth University (UK) and former manager of Policy and Standards Development with the New Zealand Maritime Safety Authority(Now Maritime New Zealand).
NZ$145.00 + delivery.
BUILDING CATHERINE, Wooden Boat Book: Traditional Boatbuilding Made Easy - a 14 foot Pulling Boat in the Whitehall Tradition.By Richard Kolin. Pbk, 215mm x 280mm, 97 pages, monochrome photographs, drawings and lines plans.
We think that this is one of the most explicit books that we have seen on how to build a clinker dinghy. The diagrams and narrative are very detailed and the line drawings of very high quality and very clear. Everything is dimensioned to an unusual degree; for example there are directions on how to make the oars, complete with the shapes and dimensions at stages along the loom and blade.
The preparation of the frame and timber false-frames for the planking is shown, and the dimensions and shapes of the individual planks. The entire construction is handled in this way.
The Whitehall dinghy Catherine is used as the basis for the book, however the process of building this vessel is without doubt an exercise in constructing any clinker build vessel up to 6 metres or so.
NZ$50.00 + delivery.
HOW TO BUILD THE SHELLBACK DINGHYBy Eric Dow. Pbk, 210mm x 277mm, 53 pages, monochrome photographs, drawings and lines plans.
Build your own 11' dinghy for rowing, sculling, and sailing. Easy to build from the separately supplied plans or a kit of pre-cut pieces, the Shellback is a dinghy of traditional design and modern glued-plywood construction. "As a purely recreational rowing and sailing boat, the Shellback is lots of fun. Yet her working qualities are equally great, as she makes a fine tender to a cruising boat. She seems versatile enough for sailors of all ages, and durable enough to be around for generations". (WoodenBoat magazine)
The plans are available from WoodenBoat Store, the details for purchase are in the back of the book.
NZ$40.00 + delivery.
BUILDING THE HERRESHOFF DINGHY, The Manufacturers Method.By Barry Thomas. Pbk, 155mm x 225mm, 50 pages, monochrome drawings, plans and photographs.
This is a complete instruction manual on the construction of this classic clinker built, rowing and sailing dinghy. Published by Mystic Seaport it is one of a series of hand books that not only show step-by-step how to construct a specific small-craft, yet also assist the novice to gain skills in building other craft using the same techniques.
The book includes a full set of building plans drawn to scale. The body of the text consists of informative background notes and concise illustrated directions to guide the boatbuilder through every phase and technique; from planking and caulking to smoothing and completion.
NZ$32.00 + Delivery.
BUILDING HEIDI, a 12 Foot Skiff For Oar And Sail.By Richard Kolin. Pbk, 275mm x 210mm, 85 pages, monochrome plans and diagrams. If you fancy building a really traditional rowing and sailing skiff then you will find this a useful book. The reader is taken through every step in building this boat from lofting up the plans to finishing off. There are very clear illustrations throughout so that even the inexperienced amateur could hardly go wrong, and a minimal number of tools are required.
NZ$53.00 + Delivery
THE MARISOL SKIFF. ISBN 0-937822-88-4.By Gifford Jackson. Hardback, 286mm x 223mm, 87 pages, monochrome drawings.
All thirty five pages from the exceptionally detailed planset are reproduced within this book.
In addition to seeing all of the plans drawings, you'll read designer Gifford Jackson's notes for each plans page, as well as his overview of Marisol. Plus you'll find sources for materials and the variety of woods used. And there is plenty of sailing advice from Gifford, who has plied the waters around his beautiful hometown of Auckland, New Zealand, for over thirty years...in this very boat.
NZ$54.00 + Delivery
HOW TO BUILD THE OCEAN POINTER.By David Stimson. Pbk, 215mm x 280mm, 57 pages, monochrome line drawings and photgraphs.
Its not a very big book but its packed with information to build this great looking 19'6" Strip Built Skiff. Each chapter starts with the materials you will need, ie for the deck, frames, and so on. Designed to take an Outboard this is a really easy looking design to build.
There is also a very interesting chapter on Design and Performance which will certainly sway your thinking towards this charming vessel.
We have had many people in here looking for designs for a similar size runabout so this may be what some of you are looking for.
Was NZ$50.00 + delivery
Now NZ$30.00 + delivery.
ULTRASIMPLE BOATBUILDING – 17 Plywood Boats Anyone Can Build.By Gavin Atkin. Softback, 210 x 280mm, 234 pages, black and white photographs and illustrations.
This complete how-to guide to the simplest boats you can build is perfect for first-time builders, parents working with children, school and community projects, and anyone who wants to build a good, inexpensive boat with a minimum of fuss. You’ll find:
NZ$50.00 + delivery.
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