Building Classic Small Craft: Complete Plans and Instructions for 47 Boats

John Gardner's work has engaged and inspired more individuals connected with traditional small craft than will ever be counted.--WoodenBoat magazine

Deserves an honored place on the library shelf.--National Fisherman

Poses clear and impassioned means to go from the armchair to the open water via your own boat shop.--Sea History

This big, handsome legacy volume contains all the plans, measurements, and directions needed to build any of 47 beautiful small boats for oar, sail, or motor.

Author: John Gardner
Publisher: International Marine Publishing
Published: 09/02/2003
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 10.99h x 8.55w x 0.85d
ISBN13: 9780071427975
ISBN10: 007142797X
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Water Sports | Boating
- Sports & Recreation | Water Sports | Sailing

About the Author

John Gardner began his boatbuilding career in 1940 at Graves Boatyard in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He became a leading advocate and teacher of building small wooden boats and wrote more than 850 articles on small boats that appeared in National Fisherman, WoodenBoat, Boating, and Yachting, among others. He died in 1995.