From the author of Yacht Designing and Planning and Boatbuilding: the definitive history and survey of the great classic American small sailing craft.
American Small Sailing Craft (originally published 1951) is considered the classic among small-boat builders and historians. In it Chapelle has documented many fast-vanishing working boats, making this the authoritative history of a passing maritime fleet. Illustrated throughout
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Howard I. Chapelle (1901-1975) was an American naval architect, and curator of maritime history at the Smithsonian Institution. In addition, he authored many books and articles books on maritime history and marine architecture, including Yacht Designing and Planning, Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction, The History of American Sailing Ships,The History of the American Sailing Navy: The Ships and Their Development, American Small Sailing Craft, and many more.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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classic,
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This review is from: American Small Sailing Craft: Their Design, Development and Construction (Hardcover)
This is the classic book about classic boats. I bought it because of my interest in one particular boat and ended up reading it cover to cover. The author put together a large part of the Smithsonian's collection of boat plans and definitely knew his stuff. This is a great book if you are interested in a particular type of historic boat. It is also worth reading just to compare the relative merits of different designs. The lines and offsets given for the many of boats are enough to build from.
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There is no substitute for this definitive work,
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This review is from: American Small Sailing Craft: Their Design, Development and Construction (Hardcover)
Howard Chapelle lived and wrote at a time when the fleets of working small sailing craft rapidly vanished. His life's work was to preserve a lowly, humble part of American maritime heritage, and his efforts are without peer.In American Small Sailing Craft, Chapelle shows us a number of the plain work-a-day craft of the watermen of old. Although people of those times took little notice of such common, plain, ordinary vessels, we modern readers are left to marvel at their seaworthiness, sturdiness, simplicity--in short, their consummate practicality. Any maritime heritage enthusiast will love this classic book.
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This review is from: American Small Sailing Craft: Their Design, Development and Construction (Hardcover)
For anyone interested in small American sailing craft this is the definite volume. As a small boat builder and model builder there is no more comprehensive source of information.
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IN THE present-day search for small sailing craft, low in cost and easily maintained, the once numerous types of small working boats formerly employed in the longshore fisheries should be considered. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
racing sharpie, sheer timber, moderate dead rise, planked fore, sailing garvey, single leeboard, colonial bateau, chine logs, flatiron skiff, gunning skiff, sprit mainsail, plank keel, whole molding, single halyard, sneak box, sailing scows, scow sloops, centerboard case, beach skiff, dipping lug, rigged model, centerboard slot, centerboard sloop, dagger board, sawn frames Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Haven, New England, New Jersey, Casco Bay, New Hampshire, Fish Commission, Cape Cod, San Francisco, Eastern Shore, Chesapeake Bay, Long Island Sound, Martha's Vineyard, Muscongus Bay, Narragansett Bay, United States, Crotch Island, Atlantic Coast, Gulf Coast, Isle of Shoals, Block Island, New Orleans, Nova Scotia, Great Lakes, Lake Champlain New!
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IN THE present-day search for small sailing craft, low in cost and easily maintained, the once numerous types of small working boats formerly employed in the longshore fisheries should be considered. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
racing sharpie, sheer timber, moderate dead rise, planked fore, sailing garvey, single leeboard, colonial bateau, chine logs, flatiron skiff, gunning skiff, sprit mainsail, plank keel, whole molding, single halyard, sneak box, sailing scows, scow sloops, centerboard case, beach skiff, dipping lug, rigged model, centerboard slot, centerboard sloop, dagger board, sawn frames Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Haven, New England, New Jersey, Casco Bay, New Hampshire, Fish Commission, Cape Cod, San Francisco, Eastern Shore, Chesapeake Bay, Long Island Sound, Martha's Vineyard, Muscongus Bay, Narragansett Bay, United States, Crotch Island, Atlantic Coast, Gulf Coast, Isle of Shoals, Block Island, New Orleans, Nova Scotia, Great Lakes, Lake Champlain New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Small Yachts: Their Design and Construction by C. P. Kunhardt on 4 pages
- Ocean City by Smith on page 331
- The Smithsonian Institution (Cornerstones of Freedom) by Mary Collins in Front Matter
- Four Months in a Sneak-box by Nathaniel H Bishop on page 211
- The History of the American Sailing Navy: The Ships and Their Development by Howard I. Chapelle in Front Matter
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- The Sharpie Book by Reuel Parker on 20 pages
- Building Classic Small Craft: Complete Plans and Instructions for 47 Boats by John Gardner on 5 pages
- Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction by Howard I. Chapelle in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- A Unit of Water, A Unit of Time: Joel White's Last Boat by Douglas Whynott on page 52, page 104, and Back Matter
- The Philosophy of Shipbuilding: Conceptual Approaches to the Study of Wooden Ships (Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series) by Frederick M. Hocker on page 86, page 111, and Back Matter
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