How to Build, Rig and Sail Her
by R.C. Leslie
An excellent and dedicated text on the subject of lapstreak (clincher or clinker in England) boat building of which there is not too much to be found these days. From the Preface: "Clench boat-building being more or less a rule of thumb and eye form of naval architecture, and not at all depending upon scientific teaching or treatment, has so far had little written about it. It is, however, peculiarly an English art, for whatever in times past we may have owned to others for our knowledge of the higher branches of ship-building and over-sea navigation, Englishmen have always held their own as the finest boatmen and sea-boat builders in the world. And anyone with an eye for such craft need only pass from Dover to Calais, to note at once the inferiority of the clumsy undecked class of boats of the French compared with those of Deal or Dover." No chauvinism there eh! Written in 1892, there is not much about lapstreak boatbuilding that can be found missing in this very complete text.
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