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It’s generally agreed that cold-molded construction is
the best method for the amateur or independent professional interested
in building a full-size cruising sail or power boat. A truly
appropriate
technology,
cold molding combines the beauty of wood with the low-maintenance
characteristics
exceeding those of fiberglass. The
New Cold-Molded Boatbuilding
is the complete, soup-to-nuts
presentation of process, with chapters detailing every facet of
construction
from choosing a design and setting up, through engine installation and
wiring,
to launching a design and performing sea trials. In addition, the
author has streamlined
the cold-molded process considerably, producing boats that are more
economical,
efficient, and sturdy–Boats built from native materials that will
last the life of the builder and turn heads in harbours around the
world.

Author
: Reuel B. Parker

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Fast, seaworthy, economical, stable, easy to build, floats
on a heavy dew – sharpies superlatives go on and on. Here’s the first
book
devoted to these unique Americans originals, with complete history,
design,
theory, traditional and modern construction techniques, and plans for
16
sharpies from 14 to 38 feet.

 

The Sharpie Book is back in print! For now….

Author
: Reuel B. Parker

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 Reuel Parker’s newest book, THE VOYAGES OF FISHERS
HORNPIPE
, is now available. The new
book, in the works for decades, is about building Capt. Parker’s first
cruising sailboat on a California beach in the mid-1970’s, and sailing
her 35,000 miles to twenty foreign countries. There is lots of
information on building, planning, provisioning, finding crew (and
love), navigation, learning the ropes of international travel, coping
with storms at sea, and many anecdotes and revelations about life under
sail. Two-hundred-sixty-two pages, with hundreds of charts and color
photographs. We had to publish this ourselves, as McGraw-Hill would not
touch a book with pictures of naked sailors! THE VOYAGES is a
frank, pragmatic exposition of life on the water–if nothing else, it
will give the reader a splendid arm-chair cruise, from the communes of
California in the 70’s, through the Panama Canal to rarely-visited
destinations like Columbia, Haiti and Grenada while it was a socialist
nation, to coping with a family in New York which could never endorse
the cruising life.
LARGE FORMAT BOOK (8.5″ X 11″).

Author:
Reuel B. Parker

Price:
$50
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