Building Classic Small Craft Complete Plans and Instructions for 47 Boats

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.

In Memoriam

Building Classic Small Craft, Volume 1

Preface

Introduction

1 The Common Punt

2 L. Francis Herreshoff's Pram

3 A Plywood Pram

4 A Sailing Flattie

5 A Chamberlain Skiff

6 A Modified Quincy Skiff

7 A Lowell Dory Skiff

8 A Semi-Dory

9 A Car-Top Semi-Dory

10 The Dory

11 A Modified Swampscott Dory

12 A North Shore Surf Dory

13 The Chamberlain Gunning Dory

14 The Beachcomber-Alpha Dory

15 A Sharpie

16 The Peapod

17 A Spurling Rowboat

18 The St. Lawrence River Skiff

19 The Rangeley Boat

20 The Wherry

21 The Origin of the Whitehall

22 A Whitehall Pulling Boat

23 The Sea Bright Skiff

24 The Barnegat Sneakbox

Appendix: Notes on Boatbuilding Materials

More Building Classic Small Craft

Preface

1 Herreshoff Rowboat and Modified McInnis Bateau

2 Pilot Gig

3 Merrymeeting Bay Duckboat

4 15-Foot Flattie Skiff

5 Two 8-Foot Prams

6 Four Canoes

7 Down East Workboat

8 Yacht Tenders

9 Sea Bright Skiff

10 Boston Fishing Power Dories

11 Matinicus Peapod

12 Two Garveys

13 Clamming Skiff

14 16-Foot Swampscott Dory

15 Mower Dory

16 Boatbuilders' Planes

Bibliography

Index

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