Wooden boats didn't disappear with the invention of GRP. Building them is still a classic craft that attracts people with a keen interest in traditional boats, as well as professional craftsmen, DIY boatbuilders and modelmakers.
Thoroughy accesible to the amateur, Wooden Boatbuilding take a unique approach to this timeless activity, using modern methods, materials and techniques to accomplish classic boat construction and restoration.
CONTENTS:
Plans of the boat.
-Lines plans
-How to read a plan
-Choosing a design
-How do you draw inspiration from a plan?
-Taking off lines
-Drawing the lines plan from measurements
-Making a half model
-The traditional half model
-Lofting
-Table of offsets
-Construction plans.
Tradional construction:
-Boatbuilding timbers
-Flaws and diseases in wookd
-The main frame timbers
-The longitudinal centriline structure
-The frames
-The planking
-Carvel planking
-Clinker planking
-Carvel planking on a sawn frame
-The layout of the planks
-Spiling carvel planks
-Sawing
-Steaming
-The various planks
-Carvel planking with mixed frames
-Carvel planking with steam bent frames
-Clinker planking with steam bent frames
-Caulking
-The stringers, joining pieces and reinforcements
-The keelson
-The inwales, risers and bilge stringers
-The open dinghy gunwale
-The knees
-The deck structure
-The deck beams
-Carlins and half beams
-The cockpit coaming
-The covering board
-The deck planking
-The rubbing strake
-The toe rail
-The accomodation space
-The superstructure
-Protecting wooden hulls
-Maintenance.
The rig:
-Masts and spars
-The spars
-Running rigging and standing rigging
-Sails
-The main types of rig
-Sailmaking
-Tanning sails
-Maintaining the sails.
Practical information:
-Amateur construction
-Boatbuilding courses
-Bibliography
-The regulations.
Glossary