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Details of Dinghy Building

Details of Dinghy Building

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Details of Dinghy Building is a comprehensive guide to building traditional clinker-built dinghies, with step-by-step instructions and photographs to help beginners avoid mistakes and achieve success.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 12 August 2021
Publisher: Lodestar Books


Whether she is to be rowed or sailed independently, or will be the tender to a larger vessel, nothing feels or looks quite like a traditional clinker-built dinghy, 'done right. And those two words are the key to a boat that will truly grace the water, charm all who use or see her, and maintain her value. In Details of Dinghy Building, Will Stirling painstakingly describes and illustrates the many arcane yet vital tasks that can daunt the beginning boatbuilder. Will has been building clinker dinghies professionally for many years and has made and learned how to avoid all the mistakes that lie in wait for the unwary. Take advantage of his experience and some 'tricks of the trade, and draw inspiration from the many mouthwatering photographs of finished boats that punctuate the book. If you're building a boat, this textual guide and photographic reference will pay for itself many times over in the time, frustration, and embarrassment it will save you. If you're not, you'll find it a fascinating verbal and visual window into a time-honoured traditional craft.

Whether she is to be rowed or sailed independently, or will be the tender to a larger vessel, nothing feels or looks quite like a traditional clinker-built dinghy, 'done right. And those two words are the key to a boat that will truly grace the water, charm all who use or see her, and maintain her value. In Details of Dinghy Building, Will Stirling painstakingly describes and illustrates the many arcane yet vital tasks that can daunt the beginning boatbuilder. Will has been building clinker dinghies professionally for many years and has made and learned how to avoid all the mistakes that lie in wait for the unwary. Take advantage of his experience and some 'tricks of the trade, and draw inspiration from the many mouthwatering photographs of finished boats that punctuate the book. If you're building a boat, this textual guide and photographic reference will pay for itself many times over in the time, frustration, and embarrassment it will save you. If you're not, you'll find it a fascinating verbal and visual window into a time-honoured traditional craft.

Weight: 590g
Dimension: 219 x 218 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781907206214

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