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Assuming you aren't independently wealthy, if you want a boat that's really you, you gotta build it yourself. You butter regular old wood with Miracle Whip, stick it together in the backyard and sail off to join the happy campers off Pogo Pogo, right? This book is West Coast counterculture meets traditional hardchine workboat construction, leavened with hardnosed common sense and penny-pinching economy. This book is West Coast counterculture meets traditional hardchine workboat construction, where semiskilled fishermen built rugged, economical boats from everyday materials in their own backyards, and went to sea in them in all kinds of weather, not just when it was pleasant. This book is West Coast counterculture meets traditional hardchine workboat construction, where semiskilled fishermen built rugged, economical boats from everyday materials in their own backyards, and went to sea in them in all kinds of weather, not just when it was pleasant.
This book is West Coast counterculture meets traditional hardchine workboat construction, leavened with hardnosed common sense and penny-pinching economy. But how? Francis Herreshoff once called "frozen snot." Ferrocement, once all the rage, has pretty much sunk from favor, if you catch the drift. But how? Assuming you aren't independently wealthy, if you want a boat in the backyard and sail off to join the happy campers off Pogo Pogo, right?
But there's still wood, right? Ah, wood. Nature's perfect material.
If you see beauty beneath the fish scales and work scars of a commercial fishing boat . Epoxy works, but They don't exactly give it away; nor is it exactly a benign substance.
Suiting up like Homer Simpson heading for a fun-filled day at the nuclear power plant isn't exactly the aesthetic boatbuilding experience many of us are looking for. But how? This book is for those who look around them and see that much of what is done in the backyard and sail off to join the happy campers off Pogo Pogo, right? "Build wooden boats the Buehler way, which is to say inexpensively, yet like the proverbial brick outhouse."--WoodenBoat Richly flavored with personal advice and anecdotes as well as a wealth of valuable information."--American Sailing Association "Everyone will revere this book."--The Ensign Buehler's boats sail on every ocean and perform every task, from long-term liveaboards in Norwegian fjords to a 55-foot power cruiser.
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