Customer Reviews

Fifty Wooden Boats: A Catalog of Building Plans, Vol.1

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Fifty Wooden Boats is an exceptional example of well-written, informative and still inspiring cataloque of fifty classical wooden boat designs. I can truly recommend it to anyone planning to build a wooden boat of his/her own. Especially here in Europe the classical plans have - to a great degree - vanished. This is a good cataloque for some of the classical designs. Hopefully we will get similar books of the wooden boats of the old continent, too!

5 Stars

Some people love working on cars, golfing, or seeing a good game. This reviewer loves ships and boats. I got this book as a house warming gift for a friend who build a massive house. I have to admit the book is amazing and quite informative.

Bluntly, if you're a good carpenter with a full work bench of tools, know a lot about basic carpentry construction, and don't mind spending money then this is the book for you.

Indeed, the person I gave this book to is an avid sailor on Lake St. Clair and is a house contractor. He is using some of the information in this book in restoring a wooden 1950s era cabin cruiser. This book tells a craftsman how to cut nautical grade joints, tells what types of woods to use, calking, and what types of glues to use. Note, the information is a little old so a person may want to research modern glues for marine use. It may not be easy to find some of the older glues referenced in this book.

I highly enjoyed reading this book. This amazon.com reviewer own a small sloop with a Marconi rig. I would never own a gaff rigged boat. But this wonderful little book will give you complete information on building a nice little sail boat. The section on the large cruisers is very tempting to anybody who has a passion for the sea.

If you are a builder of boats this book will have some good information for you. If you're like me, it has a fair bit of necessary general information on construction techniques and nautical terms.

I give it five stars. Anybody who likes boats, woodworking, and being on the water will learn something good from this nice book.

Highly recommended.

A wonderful compendium of study plans for wooden boats. The full construction plans can be purchased separately and in various places, depending on the plan set.

This book is exactly what it presents itself to be. The reason I rated it a 4 instead of a 5, was that I purchased it for plans for a curragh (currach), but no acceptable plans were included, although it came up on a search for currachs.

This is simply a catalog of plans you can buy. I wouldn't pay for a Sears catalog of things to buy. It also has a list of related articles in Woodenboat magazine that can be ordered.
I am looking for imformation on how to build a boat, not looking to buy a book on where to buy imformation on how to build a boat.

This is a great book for anyone wanting to build a wooden boat. You can go over 40 different designs and then purchase the plans for the one you wish to build.

This book is great for people that would like to build a sail boat. of the 50 designs in the book 90% of them are sailboats. Also the book itself does not contain any building plans whatsoever. It's a product catalogue for Wooden Boat. So if you want to pay for their catalog go ahead. I bought this looking for some simple boat plans that I could build with the kids on the weekend. I received a catalog for the plans. if I want to build one of them I have to pay for the plans. So all I received was a product catalog. Do not waste your money on this just go to their website ( http://www.woodenboatstore.com/ ) to get the same information.

I bought all three of the Wooden Boat plans catalogs and have spent hours drooling and dreaming as I thumb through them.

These are for aspiring home builders and priceless for those more acquainted with wooden boat plans and designs.

If you just love wooden boats or want to build one yourself, these are mandatory reading and dreaming material.

To who ever desires or dreams of building this is a valuable eye opener of what has been drawn over the years.
Some difficult some relatively easy. But all worth studying for the efforts the designers made to come up with some beautiful ships.
It is not a complete list but a very varied selection and will be able to allow some one to focus on what one find more appealing.