American Small Sailing Craft: Their Design, Development and Construction

Excellent book, fast delivery time,thanks

This book was in amazing condition. Even the book jacket looked good.

This book is the best resource available for learning about small wooden boats and how to build them. Howard Chappelle is regarded as the expert in this field of study and is highly respected.

As an small boat building enthusiast this book was exactly what I was looking for. The line plans are excellent.

This, as I said, is the Bible of traditional American small boats. Not only that, but it is chock full of plans. There's enough information in here to build a dozen boats if you have a mind to and you don't have to visit Mystic Seaport to learn how. Nothing against Mystic. I'm a life member and I've studied with some of their best, including John Gardner. But this and Chapelle's Boatbuilding are the cornerstones of American boatbuilding history. And not just academic stuff, but practical information the way it was taught way back when.

Very informative. Bought the book to aid in converting a canoe into a sailing canoe. The diagrams are kind of small and hard to read the small numbers and writing, but overall a great book.

Each section on the boat type is both too short and long enough. I wanted more text on dories, and Whitehalls, my favorite boats but there was enough about Bermuda fishing boats and Jersey Shore boats to pique my interest to go google them and see if I could find a modern version to look at. If you are considering buying or building a 19th century style boat this is a great guide to what you are getting. It's original purpose and design guidelines. It is not a how to build a boat unless you already know what you are doing and can read micro drawings of lines. To a master boat builder this book would be enough to a garage shop guy, only a taste.I bought it to research Jersey Shore boats and ended up reading it all. A boat nuts bible.

This is an older and quite exhastive work that deals almost exclusively with the last working sailing craft before power took over. It is well written, well laid out. It doesn't give much info on West Coasr rigs or pleasure craft. I bought it to study one particular boat, and on that one it did a fine job. It also has that old fashion lines and offsets for those of you interested and know how to use them. Within those limitations I recommend the book.

Tout a l'honneur Howard Chapelle, Très bon dévelloppement historique de l'évolution des petites embarcations utilisées en Amérique de 1820 à 1950 approximativement. le seul hic! pour un constructeur amateur les lignes d'eau et plan de construction ne sont clairs. Mais le livre n'est pas un condensé de plans pour amateur.