Author:
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393046601
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This small, elegant book of the most gorgeous powerboats in the world is divided into five categories--launches, runabouts and racers, power cruisers, motor yachts, and work boats, each profiled in a color photo. Mendlowitz's popular wooden boat calendars reach tens of thousands annually.
The Guide to Wooden Power Boats
Author:
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393046601
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This small, elegant book of the most gorgeous powerboats in the world is divided into five categories--launches, runabouts and racers, power cruisers, motor yachts, and work boats, each profiled in a color photo. Mendlowitz's popular wooden boat calendars reach tens of thousands annually.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393046601
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This small, elegant book of the most gorgeous powerboats in the world is divided into five categories--launches, runabouts and racers, power cruisers, motor yachts, and work boats, each profiled in a color photo. Mendlowitz's popular wooden boat calendars reach tens of thousands annually.
Wood Through Water
Author: James W. Ogilvie-Knowles
Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Pub
ISBN: 9781586635657
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Be it a small runabout or a grand sedan cruiser, every classic power boat of yesteryear shares the same essential features at heart: beautiful flowing lines, exotic hardwoods, and the need for loving care. The history of these personal wooden power boats unfolds in over 100 photos, with insights into building, upkeep, and the passion that drives their owners.
Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Pub
ISBN: 9781586635657
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Be it a small runabout or a grand sedan cruiser, every classic power boat of yesteryear shares the same essential features at heart: beautiful flowing lines, exotic hardwoods, and the need for loving care. The history of these personal wooden power boats unfolds in over 100 photos, with insights into building, upkeep, and the passion that drives their owners.
How to Build Wooden Boats
Author: Edwin Monk
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486156230
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486156230
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
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.
The Complete Wooden Runabout Restoration Guide
Author: Don Danenberg
Publisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 1616732156
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Now MBI Publishing Company’s two top-selling boating titles—written by one of the world’s top authorities on the subject of antique wooden boat restoration—are available in one volume. In this comprehensive restoration guide for owners and enthusiasts of wooden powerboats of all makes and models built from the early 1920s through the 1960s, author Don Dannenberg covers all major woodworking aspects of restoration: surveying, disassembly, repair, reconstruction, and varnishing. But when it comes to restoring a classic wooden powerboat, getting the frame, planking, and deck right is just one part of the story. Danenberg also walks enthusiasts through the topics of hardware, running gear, electrical wiring, plumbing, instruments, upholstery, trailers, and maintenance. Fully illustrated with step-by-step color photos and written in an entertaining style in which the author stresses sound reconstruction techniques over preservation of original components, this comprehensive volume also includes resource listings, glossaries, and School of Hard Knocks sidebars.
Publisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 1616732156
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Now MBI Publishing Company’s two top-selling boating titles—written by one of the world’s top authorities on the subject of antique wooden boat restoration—are available in one volume. In this comprehensive restoration guide for owners and enthusiasts of wooden powerboats of all makes and models built from the early 1920s through the 1960s, author Don Dannenberg covers all major woodworking aspects of restoration: surveying, disassembly, repair, reconstruction, and varnishing. But when it comes to restoring a classic wooden powerboat, getting the frame, planking, and deck right is just one part of the story. Danenberg also walks enthusiasts through the topics of hardware, running gear, electrical wiring, plumbing, instruments, upholstery, trailers, and maintenance. Fully illustrated with step-by-step color photos and written in an entertaining style in which the author stresses sound reconstruction techniques over preservation of original components, this comprehensive volume also includes resource listings, glossaries, and School of Hard Knocks sidebars.
Wooden Boats of the St. Lawrence River
Author: David Kunz and Bill Simpson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 146712401X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"The Thousand Islands' very name conjures up images of great natural beauty and nautical wonders. They are forested islands replete with storybook stone castles. Exquisite mahogany runabouts can be seen speeding across the placid surface of the mighty St. Lawrence. Names like Boldt, Bourne, Emery, Lyon, and Pullman are embedded in the Golden Age of the area, and it all comes to life in this pictorial history of the river. Images of America: Wooden Boats of the St. Lawrence River tells the story of the rich and powerful men who constructed castles and built classic wooden boats in the Thousand Islands. At the center of the story loom David and Charlie Lyon. A descendant of the Lyon family, David Kunz, tells this story through historical photographs. David is the great-great-nephew of Charles Potter Lyon and Helen Griffin Lyon. Bill Simpson, whose first visit to the Thousand Islands was in the fall of 1976, is a novelist and publisher of Simpson Books. The majority of the photographs in this book are from the Lyon Archives on Oak Island"--
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 146712401X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"The Thousand Islands' very name conjures up images of great natural beauty and nautical wonders. They are forested islands replete with storybook stone castles. Exquisite mahogany runabouts can be seen speeding across the placid surface of the mighty St. Lawrence. Names like Boldt, Bourne, Emery, Lyon, and Pullman are embedded in the Golden Age of the area, and it all comes to life in this pictorial history of the river. Images of America: Wooden Boats of the St. Lawrence River tells the story of the rich and powerful men who constructed castles and built classic wooden boats in the Thousand Islands. At the center of the story loom David and Charlie Lyon. A descendant of the Lyon family, David Kunz, tells this story through historical photographs. David is the great-great-nephew of Charles Potter Lyon and Helen Griffin Lyon. Bill Simpson, whose first visit to the Thousand Islands was in the fall of 1976, is a novelist and publisher of Simpson Books. The majority of the photographs in this book are from the Lyon Archives on Oak Island"--
10 Wooden Boats You Can Build
Author: Peter Spectre
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
ISBN: 9780937822340
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The beauty of this book is that the construction bugs have already been worked out of the designs. Plans, step-by-step instructions, material lists photographs and detailed diagrams.
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
ISBN: 9780937822340
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The beauty of this book is that the construction bugs have already been worked out of the designs. Plans, step-by-step instructions, material lists photographs and detailed diagrams.
Forty Wooden Boats
Author: Wooden Boat Magazine
Publisher: Wooden Boat Publications
ISBN: 9780937822326
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the third major catalog of boat plans compiled by Cynthia Curtis, Doug Hylan and Mike O'Brien. Other books are 'Fifty Wooden Boats' and 'Thirty Wooden Boats'.
Publisher: Wooden Boat Publications
ISBN: 9780937822326
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the third major catalog of boat plans compiled by Cynthia Curtis, Doug Hylan and Mike O'Brien. Other books are 'Fifty Wooden Boats' and 'Thirty Wooden Boats'.
Classic Century Powerboats
Author: Paul Miklos
Publisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 9780760310809
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Century is a renowned manufacturer of runabout, utility, and water ski boats. Starting out in Milwaukee in 1926, Century continues to be a leader in the powerboat industry today. This book traces the company's humble beginnings to market prominence, focusing on the wooden-hulled inboard and outboard boats built from 1930 to 1968. In the wood era, the company offered utilities, triple cockpit speedboats, and streamlined runabouts that performed exceptionally well against the competition.
Publisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 9780760310809
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Century is a renowned manufacturer of runabout, utility, and water ski boats. Starting out in Milwaukee in 1926, Century continues to be a leader in the powerboat industry today. This book traces the company's humble beginnings to market prominence, focusing on the wooden-hulled inboard and outboard boats built from 1930 to 1968. In the wood era, the company offered utilities, triple cockpit speedboats, and streamlined runabouts that performed exceptionally well against the competition.
10 Wooden Boats You Can Build
Author: Peter H. Spectre
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780713644661
Category : Wooden boats
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
This is a book for anyone who wants to build a wooden boat. It takes the reader through each step of the building of ten boats, explaining the plans to follow, the materials to use, and the skills and methods necessary to make each project a success. The boats range from the elementary to the more advanced.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780713644661
Category : Wooden boats
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
This is a book for anyone who wants to build a wooden boat. It takes the reader through each step of the building of ten boats, explaining the plans to follow, the materials to use, and the skills and methods necessary to make each project a success. The boats range from the elementary to the more advanced.
The Book of Wooden Boats
Author: Maynard Bray
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393034178
Category : Ships, Wooden
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A mouth-watering encomium on power and sail boats of wood construction. The artistic and technically excellent photos of Benjamin Mendlowitz qualify this book for all photo collections (many of these have appeared in the ten year life of Calendar of wooden boats). Bray's input is in pointing out the elegance, romance, aesthetics of the very photogenic subjects. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393034178
Category : Ships, Wooden
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A mouth-watering encomium on power and sail boats of wood construction. The artistic and technically excellent photos of Benjamin Mendlowitz qualify this book for all photo collections (many of these have appeared in the ten year life of Calendar of wooden boats). Bray's input is in pointing out the elegance, romance, aesthetics of the very photogenic subjects. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR