Details of Classic Boat Construction: 25th Anniversary Edition [Hardcover]

This impressive book shows the process of constructing a boat hull with extensive photographs and drawings and includes ample time-saving procedures. Larry Pardey is accepted as one of the master craftsman of the wooden-boat building world. He and his wife, Lin, have built two, strong, handsome boats an sailed twice around the world in them. This book will help you to save money, time, and energy while creating the boat of your dreams. This book will also guide you with the right tools and equipment, planning and detailing as well as how to create and make your own tools. Guides to repairing and maintaining your boat are included as well. A world of useful information is contained in just these 448 pages.

This 25th anniversary edition has a new iforward by Theis Mattisen, renewned boatbuilder, sailor, adventurer and writer who feels this book will encourage even the least skilled of boatbuilders.

Larry Pardey spent his teenage years rebuilding several boats ranging from eight to twenty feet in length. As he sold each one, he used his sweat equity profits to finance his next project. His largest from-the-keel-up projects have been the two boats he built with his wife Lin:??Seraffyn??the five-ton cutter which took them on an eleven-year, east-about circumnavigation, and??Taleisin??the boat shown in this book, which took them west-about over the past 30 years. As they cruised, Larry put his skills to work earning the majority of his income by repairing and restoring classic boats in fifteen different countries, including two that he and Lin then raced successfully in New Zealand. Many of the ideas he shares in this book where learned from builders he met in the course of his travels.

As Peter Milne, editor of??Classic Boat??magazine commented, Larry's prime interest might be the building of wooden craft, but he is one of those rare creatures, a builsĒ