The Sailor's Sketchbook [Paperback]

Bruce Bingham (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1983

These 76 projects for improving your boat include cockpit navigation centers and tables, a unique non-skid system, on-deck line stowage, bug screens and other "Velcroisms," wood-shelled blocks, a seagoing gallery, and portable showers. Bruce Bingham's wonderful drawings will inspire any sailor, no matter how inexperienced a do-it-yourselfer, to start tinkering on his or her boat.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press; 1 edition (June 1, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071550968
• ISBN-13: 978-0071550963
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,212,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book of projects and ideas for sailboats, March 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Sailor's Sketchbook (Paperback)

This book is a lot of fun. It contains many projects for improving sailboats and life aboard them, all drawn and described in a quaint "American Boys Handybook" style. As Bingham says, he did not expect people to copy his projects exactly, but rather to get ideas from reading about them and design their own projects. Either way, this book is a lot of fun.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A fun book for Kids and Adults..., July 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Sailor's Sketchbook (Paperback)

You know I've got to say I've enjoyed this book greatly. Not so much for myself as for my three year old son. He and I spend many an hour looking through the different sketches trying to find the mouse and the cat that are in many of the pictures in this book. We call it the mouse and cat book.

Oh yeah and the information in the book is great for any boat owner. He goes over lots of little things you can do to take your boat from just a boat to a yacht no matter what the size.

Anyway, just want to say that while there may be many books with more details or more information, there aren't many that are as much fun with useful information to boot.

Good reading and good sailing.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth Every Cent, if You Can Get It, February 5, 2010

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Ken Douglas (Landlocked in Reno) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sailor's Sketchbook (Paperback)

The illustrations in this book are first rate, as is the advice. In easy to understand steps this DIY book for sailors details such things as compass mounting, wood planking on fiberglass hatches, roller furling, dinghy towing, even how to build bookcases aboard. The printing is all done by hand and it is a joy to read. The project will save the cruising sailor many more dollars than the price of the book. The tips, the drawings, the advice, it all comes together in this book that every cruising sailor who is handy with tools should have aboard. This book is worth every cent if you can get it.