Chris Kulczycki

The Canoe Shop: Three Elegant Wooden Canoes Anyone Can Build

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A lavishly illustrated, user-friendly guide for novices and experienced boat builders alike, The Canoe Shop provides plans and building instructions for three graceful and rugged touring canoes--a 12-foot double-paddle canoe, a 14-foot solo canoe, and a 16-foot tandem boat--that virtually anyone can build directly from the book. Following the same critically acclaimed format found in his classic, The New Kayak Shop, leading North American boat designer Chris Kulczycki walks readers through the entire building process for each boat. One standout feature of The Canoe Shop is a revolutionary, simplified approach to lapstrake construction which makes this traditional technique--considered by many to be the finest method of wooden boat construction--available to amateurs for the first time.- Features three original designs from one of the most respected small-boat designers- Contains dozens of illustrations and step-by-step building instructions

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 189mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780071372275
• ISBN-10: 007137227X
• Artikelnr.: 21380599

Autorenporträt

Over 10,000 stitch-and-glue boats have been built to Chris Kulczycki's designs. His plans have been published in numerous magazines and books. The company he founded has become the largest boat kit and plan manufacturer in the world. His designs have been licensed to a kit builder in Japan and are sold by distributors in Europe and Asia. Chris also taught boatbuilding courses at the WoodenBoat School and in other programs for 10 years. He is the author of three books and over 100 magazine and newspaper articles. He has been contributing editor to Sail magazine and a regular contributor to Cruising World, WoodenBoat, Sea Kayaker, and others. His articles have also appeared in Outside, Men's Journal, and other magazines. His photos have appeared on a WoodenBoat cover and in interior spreads in Cruising World and Sail. Chris sold Chesapeake Light Craft three years ago to concentrate on writing.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Building Canoes
Chapter 2. The Materials
Chapter 3. The Tools
Chapter 4. The Plans
Chapter 5. Making the Panels
Chapter 6. Assembling the Hull
Chapter 7. Gluing the Hull
Chapter 8. Glassing the Bottom
Chapter 9. Fitting Out
Chapter 10. Painting and Varnishing
Appendix 1. More Boat Designs
Appendix 2. Resources
Appendix 3. Sharpening Tools
Metric Conversion Table
Index