Reading List

 

 

 

 

Books and Reference Sources

Following is not a comprehensive list but are in my library. I find them most useful to my work and my clients needs. I haven't included all the Internet resources.

Canoes, Canoe Building/Design

Canoe Craft
Ted Moores and Marilyn Mohr
Firefly Books, Willowdale Ontario, or Camden House; 1983; 1994.
145 pages with plans.

Building a Strip Canoe
Gil Gilpatrick. DeLorme Publishing Co., Yarmouth, Maine 04096
Excellent section on caning canoe seats in the traditional manner, plans

Building the Maine Guide Canoe
Jerry Stelmok
Lyons and Burford

The Wood and Canvas Canoe, A Complete Guide to its History, Construction, Restoration and Maintenance
Jerry Stelmok and Rollin Thurlow
Tilbury House, Publishers 2 Mechanic Street, Gardiner, Maine 04345

The Art of the Canoe with Joe Seliga
Jerry Stelmok
MBI Publishing Company, Galtier Plaza. Suite 200, 380 Jackson Street, St. Paul MN 55101-3885, 2002

Featherweight Boatbuilding
Mac McCarthy, WoodenBoat Books, Brooklin, Maine 04616, 1996

Canoes and Kayaks for the Backyard Builder
Skip Snaith, International Marine Camden, Maine 1989

Rushton, His Life and Times in American Canoeing
Atwood Manley, The Adirondack Museum, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York, 13244-5160, 1968
Additional information available from the Adirondack Museum. Adirondack Museum, PO Box 99, Blue Mountain Lake, NY 12812

Canoe and Boat Building A Complete Manual for Amateurs
W. P. Stephens, Fifth Edition
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, New York, 1891.
Reprints of Plates currently available from Mystic Seaport Museum.
Text available on the Web although the image quality is low, buy the plates!

The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America
Edwin Tappan Adney and Howard I Chappelle
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1983

Birchbark Canoe, Living Among the Algonquin
David Gidmark, Firefly Books 1997

The Canoe, Its Selection Care and Use
Robert E. Pinkerton, 1914, The Macmillan Company (Text Content on the Web at the WCHA Site)

Canoe Rig, Sailpower for Antique and Traditional Canoes
Todd E. Bradshaw, WoodenBoat Books, Brooklin, Maine 04616, 2000

Ultralight Boatbuilding, How You Can Build Light, Elegant, and Simple Boats and Canoes using Plywood and Epoxy, Thomas J. Hill, 134 pages, International Marine Publishing, Camden, Maine, 1987

Building Sweet Dream: An Ultralight Solo Canoe for Single and Double Paddle
Marc F. Pettingill (1996) Tiller, St. Michaels, MD, 21663 1996

More Building Classic Small Craft, Building Classic Small Craft, Complete Plans and Instructions for 47 boats
Gardner, John. 1997 International Marine Publishing, Camden, Maine,
See Chapter entitled "4 Canoes"

The Story of the Chestnut Canoe, 150 years of Canadian Canoe Building
Kenneth Solway. Nimbus Publishing Limited, Halifax, NS B3K 5N5,1997

The Canoe Shop, Three Elegant Wooden Canoes Anyone Can Build
Chris Kulczycki, Ragged Mountain Press/McGraw Hill, Camden Maine, 2001

Building Your Kevlar Canoe, A Foolproof Method and Three Foolproof Designs
James Moran, 1995, 184 pages, 134 illus. Designs for "a stable family canoe, a solo canoe, and a wilderness tripper" International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, P.O. Box 220, Camden Maine

Kayak, Kayak Building/Design

The Kayak Shop, Three Elegant Wooden Kayaks Anyone Can Build
Chris Kulczycki, 1993, International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, P.O. Box 220, Camden Maine

The Strip-Built Sea Kayak, Three Beautiful Boats you can Build
Nick Schade, 1998, International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, P.O. Box 220, Camden Maine

Baidarka
George Dyson, Alaska Northwest Books, 1986, 2208 NW Market Street, Suite 300, Seatlle, WA 98107

The Aleutian Kayak: Origins, Construction, and Use of the Traditional Seagoing Baidarka
Wolfgang Brink, 1995, 176 p. International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, P.O. Box 220, Camden Maine

Kayaks You Can Build, An Illustrated Guide to Plywood Construction
Ted Moores and Greg Rossel, Firefly Books, P.O. Box 1338, Ellicott Station, Buffalo, New York, 14205, 2004,

Kayak Craft, Fine Woodstrip Kayak Construction
Ted Moores, WoodenBoat Books, Brooklin, Maine 04616, 1999

Wood and Canvas Kayak Building
George Putz, International Marine Ragged Mountain Press, P.O. Box 220, Camden Maine, 1990,

Boatbuilding

Boatbuilding, A complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction
Howard I. Chapelle
W.W. Norton, 1941/1969

Boatbuilding, Clinker Plywood Manual
Iain Oughtred, WoodenBoat Books, Brooklin, Maine 04616, 1998

Devlin’s Boat Building, How to Build Any Boat The Stitch and Glue Way, Samual Devlin, 1996, International Marine Ragged Mountain Press, P.O. Box 220, Camden Maine

How to Build Wooden Boats, With 16 Small-Boat Designs
Edwin Monk
Dover Publications, Inc. New York (revised edition from a 1934 Charles Scribner’s Sons edition under the title Small Boat Building for the Amateur, with 16 Modern Small Boat Design, Rowboats, Sailboats, Outboards, a 125 class Hydroplane and a runabout.

The Gougeon Brothers on Boat Construction
New 4th Revised edition, 1985

Building Small Boats
Greg Rössel
WoodenBoat Books, Brooklin, Maine, 3rd printing 2003

Instant Boats
Harold H. (Dynamite) Payson
H.H. Payson & Co.
South Thomaston, Maine
2001
Originally 1979 by International Marine

10 Wooden Boats You Can Build
The Wooden Boat Series, WoodenBoat Books, Brooklin, Maine
Peter H. Spectre Series Editor
1995

Traditional Boat Building Made Easy, A 12 foot skiff for oar and sail
Richard Kolin
WoodenBoat Books, Brooklin, Maine 1996

Frame, Stem & Keel Repair
The Wooden Boat Series
WoodenBoat Books, Brooklin, Maine
Peter H. Spectre Series Editor, 1996

Planking and Fastening
The Wooden Boat Series
WoodenBoat Books, Brooklin, Maine
Peter H. Spectre Series Editor, 1996

Painting and Varnishing
The Wooden Boat Series
WoodenBoat Books, Brooklin, Maine
Peter H. Spectre Series Editor, 1995

25 Woodworking Projects, For Small and Large Projects
The Wooden Boat Series
WoodenBoat Books, Brooklin, Maine
Peter H. Spectre Series Editor
1997

How to Build 20 Boats
No’s 7, 6, 8, 5, 10, 137, 211, 111
Fawcett Publications

Boat Interior Construction
Michael Naujok
Sheridan House
1992/ 2nd ed 2002

Boat Design

Theoretical Navel Architecture
Edward L. Atwood
Longman’s Green and Company
London, 1922

Boats, Oars and Rowing
R.D. Culler
International Marine, 1978

Sail and Oar
John Leather
International Marine, 1982

American Small Sailing Craft, Their Design, Development, and Construction
Howard I. Chapelle
W.W. Norton & Company, 1951

The American Fishing Schooners 1825-1935
Howard I. Chapelle
W.W. Norton & Company, 1973

The National Watercraft Collection, United States National Museum Bulletin 219
Howard I. Chappelle
Smithsonian Institution, 1960

87 Boat Designs, A Catalog of Small Boat Plans from Mystic Seaport
Benjamin A.G. Fuller
Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc.
Mystic, CT, 2002

Boat Plans at Mystic Seaport
Anne and Maynard Bray
Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc.
Mystic, CT, 2000

Elements of Yacht Design
Norman L. Skene
Sheridan House, Inc. 145 Palisade Street, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
Sheridanhouse.com
2001 (originally Published 1938)

Sensible Cruising Designs
L. Francis Herreshoff
International Marine, 1973

Small Boats
Philip C. Bolger
International Marine, 1973

Different Boats
Philip C. Bolger
International Marine, 1980

30 Odd Boats
Philip C. Bolger
International Marine, 1982

Boats with an Open Mind, Seventy-Five Unconventional Designs and Concepts
Philip C. Bolger
International Marine, 1994

103 Sailing Rigs
Phil Bolger
Phil Bolger and Friends
Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1998

Make Your Own Sails, A Handbook for the Amateur and Professional Sailmaker
R.M. Bowker and S.A. Budd
St. Martin’s Press, 1966

Lofting
Allan H. Vaitses
WoodenBoat Books, Brooklin, Maine, 1999

The Practical Loftsman
Hull Division USN, 1918

Aero-Hydrodynamics of Sailing
C.A. Marchaj
International Marine
1979/ Revised 1988

Principles of Yacht Design, 2nd Edition
Lars Larsson & Rolf E Eliasson
International Marine
2000 Revised (1994)

Design of Sailing Yachts, 2nd Edition, Rev.
Pierre Gutelle
Warsash Publishing, Southampton, England

Yacht and Small Craft Design, From Principles to Practice
Gorgon Trower
Helmsman Books, Crowood Press, England, 1992

Performance Advances in Small Boat Racing
Edited by Stewart Walker
W.W. Norton & Company, 1969

The Multihull Primer
D.H. Clarke
Granada Publishing, London, 1976

100 Boat Designs Reviewed, Design Commentaries by the Experts
The Wooden Boat Series
WoodenBoat Books, Brooklin, Maine
Peter H. Spectre Series Editor, 1997

Fifty Wooden Boats, A Catalog of Building Plans Volume 1984/1999
Thirty Wooden Boats, A Second Catalog of Building Plans1988/1997
Forty Wooden Boats, A Third Catalog of Building Plans 1995/1999
Editors of Wooden Boat Magazine
WoodenBoat Books, Brooklin, Maine

Dory Model Book
Harold “Dynamite” Payson
WoodenBoat Books, Brooklin, Maine, 1997