HOW TO BUILD FIBERGLASS BOATS
by Charles Bell
If you can use a hammer and saw, scissors and a paint brush you can build a boat which you can carry on a trailer and spend your vacation on the water. Best of all you can do this in half the time and at half the cost of an ordinary wood boat. The answer is plastic--fiberglass-reinforced plastic. The use of plastic in building new boats has removed much of the complicated carpentry and has materially reduced labor hours. Here is a book to tell you how. Builders will find complete fabrication, handling and laminating techniques in this book and there are three popular type boats to build from a simple fishing skiff to a 27' sailboat.
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