Product Description

The first comprehensive book on stripbuilding almost any type of small boat

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59738 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780071475242
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author

Nick Schade runs Guillemot Kayaks, one of the best-known providers of plans and kits for strip-built kayaks. He has written feature articles for Sea Kayaker and other magazines.

Customer Reviews

A Good Book for Builders of Wood-Strip and Fiberglass Boats
Building Strip-Planked Boats by Nick Schade primarily describes methods for building beautiful boats from wood strips, fiberglass and epoxy. It updates many techniques that were described in the author's earlier book, The Strip-Built Sea Kayak. This book also provides offset dimensions and instructions to build a dinghy, a one-person canoe and a rough-water sea kayak.

This book provides an excellent overview of wood-core and fiberglass construction, and detailed information on working with wood strips, fiberglass and epoxy. Many practical tips are included, as well as suggestions for avoiding and dealing with the most common problems.

However, the book seems to be missing a few chapters. Significant information for the first-time builder is absent in this book: The kayak section contains no information on the construction of bulkheads, footbraces, rudders, retractable skegs, or outfitting the boat with deck rigging and a seat. Many best practices are missing, such as measuring epoxy with nested cups, preserving brushes and rollers by freezing, pre-taping seams for joining hull and deck, and using webbing for deck riggings.

Other best building practices receive only scant mention, such as using masking tape and a sharp blade to trim secondary layers of fiberglass. The book would also have benefited from more photographs of the finished boats.

The book would have been more appealing if it offered designs for a more general-purpose canoe and a more general-purpose kayak, as fewer people will be interested in these niche designs.

This book is a good supplement for boat-builders, but most first-time builders of a strip boat would probably learn more from the step-by-step organization of Nick Schade's first book, The Strip-Built Sea Kayak: Three Rugged, Beautiful Boats You Can Build, or Ted Moores' books Canoecraft: An Illustrated Guide to Fine Woodstrip Construction and Kayakcraft: Fine Woodstrip Kayak Construction. This is a 3-star book.

11 more years of strip building experience
Nick's 11 more years of experience are put into this book! a lot of little tips that can help any one building small wooden boats i wish it had three more kayaks but i guess a canoe and a pram is appealing to a larger crowd... don't miss this book and if you have'nt read the first book order them both they are a must for anyone in love of building their own small wooden boats.

good but too scattered
There are many good points in this book but in my opinion it is trying to be too much for too wide an audience. In the process of covering multiple types of craft the "gems" are somewhat hidden. It was a good effort, but I wish in this case it had been more linear in the presentation. Don't get me wrong, I would buy it again.