Publications

The Brotherhood of Pandora

Many of you will know David Nichols from his popular boat designs or his traditional boat-building books, but he’s just released a historical, nauticallly-accurate fiction book to rave reviews. 313 riveting pages...

Plug-In-Boats by Tom Hruby

Electric boat enthusiast and author Tom Hruby shares his knowledge gained by real world experience (*more on Tom below) in this concise, full-sized (8" x 10") color, print edition. Advance your understanding of electricity and how it can be used to...

Building Outrigger Canoes

Epoxy Basics by Russell Brown

Renowned designer and boat builder Russell Brown shares hard-won techniques for working with epoxy in this concise, full-sized (8.5 x 11) color, print edition. Advance your epoxy skills and waste less, sand less, and achieve beautiful results. This full...

Tolman Alaskan Skiffs Plans

Renn Tolman spent 18 years developing the Tolman Skiff to answer the demands of commercial and sport fishermen in the rugged waters off Alaska. Eventually, he put everything he learned in this book. This is all you need to build one of these wonderful...

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...

Tricks Cheating & Chingaderos

Imagine you spent 23 years working on painting and varnishing the classic wooden boats along the Port Townsend waterfront - just think of all the techniques you'd pick up. Joni Blanchard has just that kind of experience. Her new large-format (8.5 x 11)...

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...

Boatbuilding For Beginners (and Beyond)

Jim Michalak's long awaited second book is here. Garth Battista, of Breakaway Books, convinced Jim to put down everything he knows about boat building in a professionally printed and bound book. Much of the material comes from Jim's popular online...

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...

Jagular Goes Everywhere

With a steadfastly contrarian sensibility and a lively appreciation of both the profound and the absurd, author Tom Pamperin sets out in his cheap plywood skiff Jagular on a series of sail-and-oar (mis)adventures ranging from the Gulf Coast to the Great...