Details of Classic Boat Construction - Hardcover

Pardey, Larry

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9780964603684: Details of Classic Boat Construction

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0964603683 ISBN 13: 9780964603684

Publisher: Thomas Reed Publications, 1999

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Larry Pardney is considered one of the master craftsmen of the wooden-boat building world. He and his wife Lin have built two strong handsome boats and sailed twice around the world in them. This book shows the process of constructing a boat hull with extensive photographs and drawings and includes ample time-saving proceedures.

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"Building a wooden boat is a deeply satisfying creative pursuit and one of the pinnacles of that near-relative of art -- craftsmanship. Larry Pardey dismisses the common moan that the traditional skills of this particular craftmanship are lost. Nor, he shows, is there anything mysterious about them; they can be easily learned. Perhaps the most valuable quality of the book is the way it passes on vital know-how about details of construction methods and the relative importance of particular items and aspects". -- Lloyds List, London

About the Author:

Larry Pardey spent his teenage years rebuilding several boats ranging from eight to twenty feet in length. As he sold each one, he used his "sweat equity" profits to finance his next project. His largest from-the-keel-up projects have been the two boats he built with his wife Lin: Seraffyn the five-ton cutter which took them on an eleven-year, east-about circumnavigation, and Taleisin the boat shown in this book, which took them west-about over the past 30 years. As they cruised, Larry put his skills to work earning the majority of his income by repairing and restoring classic boats in fifteen different countries, including two that he and Lin then raced successfully in New Zealand. Many of the ideas he shares in this book where learned from builders he met in the course of his travels.

As Peter Milne, editor of Classic Boat magazine commented, "Larry's prime interest might be the building of wooden craft, but he is one of those rare creatures, a builder who has covered a tremendous number of sea miles - more than 200,000- in yachts of his own building as well as other people's. This has given Larry firsthand information about which boat-building techniques work, which don't, out there in the big test-tank, the ocean. With his well-rounded background, larry has developed a reputation as one of the master craftsmen of the wooden boatbuilding world."

For over 45 years, Lin has worked alongside Larry, doing his purchasing and finish work. She has written extensively about their voyages and worked as researcher and editor on this book.

Together Lin and Larry have written ten other books and produced five videos on various sailing subjects. They are currently residing at their homebase in New Zealand where they have a small boat repair facility.

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