by D.C. Beard
With many illustrations by the Author
Here's a boat building book with a difference! This is boat building from the basic to the more basic. It covers boat building from the construction of impromptu rafts in the wilderness, through the building of canoes (including the birch-bark) to the building of simple small sailing craft. Of especial interest to the wildnerness camper and canoeist are the chapters on log rafts, both primitive and quite sophisticated. This knowledge will stand someone in good stead should they ever be stranded or need to cross an unexpected body of water without access to a boat and with only simple tools such as a camp hatchet. As the author says in the Preface, "This is not a book for yacht-builders, but is intended for beginners in the art of boat-building, for boys and men who wish to make something with which they may navigate the waters of ponds, lakes, or streams. It begins with the most primitive crafts composed of slabs or logs and works up to scows, houseboats, skiffs, canoes and simple forms of sailing craft, a motor boat, and there it stops." Contents: How to Cross a Stream on a Log, Home-Made Boats, A Raft that will Sail, Canoes, Canoes and Boating Stunts, The Birch-Bark, How to Build a Paddling Dory, The Landlubber's Chapter, How to Rig and Sail Small Boats, More Rigs of all Kinds for Small Boats, Knots, Bends, and Hitches, How to Build a Cheap Boat, A "Rough-and-Ready" Boat, How to Build Cheap and Substantial House-Boats, A Cheap and Speedy Motor-Boat,
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