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1984 More Building Classic Small Craft, which is a re-issue of Building Classic Small Craft (vol.2) 1987 Dory Book. Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic Connecticut. ISBN 0-913372-44-7; 1993 Classic Small Craft You Can Build and Use Mystic Seaport Museum Inc (July 1993) ISBN 0913372668
His first book, Fleet Destroyer – a collection of stories about life on the small ships – was published by The Book Depot, Melbourne, in 1945. Macdonnell began writing full-time for Horwitz in 1956, writing an average of a dozen books a year. [1] [2] After leaving the navy, Macdonnell lived in St. Ives, Sydney and pursued his writing career.
Bolger was a prolific writer and wrote many books, the last being Boats with an Open Mind, as well as hundreds of magazine articles on small craft designs, chiefly in Woodenboat, Small Boat Journal and Messing About in Boats. Bolger died on May 24, 2009, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His wife explained that "[h]is mind had slipped in the ...
This is a list of boat builders, for which there is a Wikipedia article. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
An intuitive handling boat 2009: Marex 37: Power: Powerboats 10 – 12 m: New aft cabin walkaround concept, with E. Thorup 2009: Windy 44: Power: Powerboats 12 – 14 m: High performance hull of light and strong build 2010: Greenline 33: Power: Special award for innovation: First production diesel-electric-photovoltaic boat 2011: Monte Carlo ...
Ed Monk, Sr., wrote two books on boat building: Monk, Edwin, Small Boat Building, 1934, revised 1947, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York; Monk, Edwin, Modern Boat Building, 1939, revised 1949 and 1973, [7] published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York; Monk designed commercial vessels which included tugs [8]: 622 and cargo carriers.
Hacker-Craft's logo, hand-painted in gold leaf on the side of a mahogany runabout. Hacker was born in Detroit, Michigan on May 24, 1877. For four years, while working at his father's business as a bookkeeper, he attended night school and took a correspondence course in order to become an accredited marine designer.
Lofting is particularly useful in boat building, when it is used to draw and cut pieces for hulls and keels. These are usually curved, often in three dimensions . Loftsmen at the mould lofts of shipyards were responsible for taking the dimensions and details from drawings and plans, and translating this information into templates, battens ...