Brightwork - Softcover

Wittman, Rebecca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071486577 ISBN 13: 9780071486576

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2007

“As well as being a comprehensive guide to wood finishing, this work celebrates the beauty of brightwork on boats.”―WoodenBoat

“A first class and highly readable text that should be mandatory reading for anyone who owns or is contemplating owning a wooden trimmed vessel.”―Sailing

“It’s elegant―elegant as the work it describes so successfully, elegant in its writing, elegant in its photography, and elegant physically as a volume.”―SAIL

“Brightwork provides all the information you need to avoid frustrations and costly mistakes and derive the greatest satisfaction from a process that can be its own reward.”―A Cruising World “Editor’s Choice”

Few things transform a boat into a yacht quite as gracefully as the incomparable look and texture of oiled, varnished, and bare wood surfaces. Drawing on her decades of brightwork experience, Rebecca Wittman shows you how to diagnose and cure a deteriorating finish, when cracked and flaking varnish can be patched and when it must be stripped and a new finish applied, how much sanding is truly necessary, and much more.

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Review:

"Everyone who does varnishing should have this book!--Wittman does an outstanding job of educating in all there is to know about this critical stage of boat restoration--A superb book I highly recommend." Classic Boating "It's elegant--elegant as the work it describes so successfully, elegant in its writing, elegant in its photography." Sail "Packed with useful information for both amateur and professional refinsishes alike--A first class and highly readable text that should be mandatory reading for anyone who owns or is contemplating owning a wood-trimmed vessel--The book's only drawback is that it's so beautiflly illustrated that you'll need to buy a second copy to replace the one assigned to your cofee table." Sailing

About the Author:

Born and raised on a cattle ranch near Lewiston, Idaho, one of eight children, Rebecca Wittman moved to Seattle after college and became a clothing designer for Brittania Sportswear, a night-club singer who sang the national anthem on CBS at a 1979 NBA championship game, and, in the mid-1970s, a brightwork artist. She cofounded a custom yacht refinishing company, The Teak Twins, in 1978, and within five years completed full or partial brightwork restoration projects on more than 100 yachts in the Seattle area. In 1983 she founded a yacht management and refinishing business in Marina del Rey, California, then returned to Seattle in 1986, refinishing her 500th boat in the early 1990s. She has taught brightwork classes and annual spring seminars at the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle, and now owns and runs a real-estate management company. HOMETOWN: Seattle, WA

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