Paul Fisher instruction manuals

Strip Plank Boat Construction

The ins and outs of this popular buillding method Strip planking is an increasingly popular method of boat construction (over half of all our new design work is for strip planked craft). It enables the amateur boat builder to produce a beautiful round...

Sails for the Home Boat Builder

Make your own sails This new manual incorporates our old "Manual of Sail Making for the Home Boatbuilder" but now also includes several new sections. These include a discussion of the most popular rigs used for dinghies, dayboats and yachts (traditional...

Plywood Canoe Construction

Includes sailing canoe details Ply/Epoxy and stitch and tape construction is fun because, with little financial outlay, you can be on the water very quickly in a boat that you have created yourself over a period of only 25 hours or so, using basic...

Stitch & Tape Boat Construction

All the basics of stitch & tape This new manual incorporates our old "Manual of Modern Small Plywood Boat Construction Techniques" but now also includes several new sections. These include new chapters on fitting buoyancy (flotation), shaping and...

A Manual of Plywood Boat Construction for Larger Craft

covers the construction of boats using modern ply on frame techniques This manual covers the construction of boats using modern ply on frame techniques - the stitch and tape method of construction is fine for boats below 18' or so although I have used...

A Manual of Clinker (Lapstrake) Plywood Boat Construction

has 129 diagrams helping to explain the process Many Selway Fisher designs can be built using the clinker ply method and some have been specifically designed for this method - this manual has 129 diagrams helping to explain the process from the set-up of...