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Once your hull is built then you are going to find this book invaluable during the next stage of your project. Fred Bingham has poured 60 years of boatbuilding experience into these pages. On nearly every page there are tips and techniques that even the experienced boatbuilder will find handy. Starting with simple tasks, by the end of the book you will find even the seemingly complex tasks have become simple.
Softcover 289 pages

us$39.95 - € 27 - £10 -A$57  ORDERS

"One almost has the feeling that the author is right there, advising and encouraging, showing how to use a tool, helping lay out deck beams, pausing to tell how he did a job on such and such a boat."  Small Boat Journal

"Should interest everyone from the casual weekend tinkerer to the sailor who,s building his own boat."    Yachting

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BRUCE'S COMMENTS: This book is HIGHLY recommended to anyone who is building or repairing any boat. Bruce.

Introduction
1. The Woodworker's Basic Hand Tools
2. More Basic Handtools
3. Electric Hand Tools
4. Stationary Power Tools
5. Tools, Jigs, and Accessories You Can Build
6. Tips,Techniques, Facts, Opinions
7. Nineteen Useful Joints and How to Make Them
8. Tying it all Together
9. Decks
10. Cabin Trunk Construction
11. Building the Yacht Interior
12. Niceties and Necessities Below Decks
13. Things on Deck
14. Log-rails and Toerails
20. Spars
16. Woodworking Projects for the Home
17. Build your own Trifle