Invaluable guide offers detailed descriptions, drawings of masting, rigging and major fittings of American clippers and packets. Also includes wealth of details on deck furniture of various types of vessels from different periods. 279 line drawings.
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The Art of Rigging by George Biddlecombe The best manual ever produced on rigging the sailing ship — indispensable for serious model builders. Terms and phrases, onshore operations, rigging brigs, yachts, small vessels, much more. Introduction. 17 plates.
How to Build Wooden Boats: With 16 Small-Boat Designs by Edwin Monk Clear concise manual for amateurs offers detailed illustrated instructions for building 16 basic wooden craft — rowboats, sailboats, outboards, runabouts, hydroplane, more. 15 halftones. 49 line illustrations.
Boat-Building and Boating by Daniel C. Beard Construction and operation dos and don'ts for everything from simple rafts and birch-bark canoes to a small sailboat and a speedy motor-boat. 238 illustrations.
