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Books & Publications
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 Marine Reinforced Plastics Construction
Manufacture & Repair
by John A. Wills
Softcover, 8½x11", 256 pages with many illustrations and photographs.
Price: $34.95 includes S&I US
Marine Reinforced Plastics Construction takes a complex technical subject and distills the essence into helpful, comprehensive and even entertaining terms. Author John Wills introduces the reader to the subject of marine reinforced plastics (what most of us refer to collectively as "fiberglass"), offers solutions to blistering and other problems and then challenges the reader with recent discoveries and less conventional processes. One can opt for a thorough grounding in the subject of plastics, the solution to a pressing repair problem, or explore a new discovery in marine plastics construction. John Wills freely admits to being a "plastics-ophile" and provides a consummate authority on the subject as well as a good read.
To Order Call 800-554-BOAT (2628)
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 Woodcarving
Decorative Signs & Eagles
Carving, Finishing & Gold Leafing
by David Hassell
Softcover, 8½x11", 160 pages illustrated with line drawings, large-size fold-out plans, and over 400 photographs.
Price: $24.95 includes S&I US
Woodcarving is a is a beginner's handbook for carving letters, basic decorative figures and signs. Carver David Hassell has made his living for years creating elegant carved wood signs and decorative carvings for boats and businesses. In this book, he gives the beginning carver the basics of getting started and teaches you the essential steps of carving letters and simple, elegant designs. He takes you step-by-easy-step through carving simple exercises to eight different nameboard designs, through carving letters both large and small, to three more complex eagles and on through finishing and gold leafing techniques. Large-sized patterns for each project are provided, as well as complete tool and equipment lists.
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 Small Ships
Working Vessels & Workboat Heritage Yacht Designs
by The Benford Design Group
FIFTH EDITION
Softcover, 8½x11", 304 pages heavily illustrated with line drawings and photos in color & black & white. Price: $34.95 includes S&I US
Small Ships. With a live-aboard focus, this book of study plans details tugs, freighters, ferries, excursion boats, trawler yachts, houseboats & fishing vessels - working vessels and workboat heritage yacht designs - from the boards of The Benford Design Group. All of the designs have a refreshing frankness about them, absent any tricky styling, glitter or glitz. Some are ideas, dreams of what might be or ought to be, and one just might be your own special dream boat.
To Order Call 800-554-BOAT (2628)
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 Cruising Designs
A Catalog of Plans for Cruising Boats, Sail & Power
by The Benford Design Group
FOURTH EDITION
Softcover, 8½x11", 96 pages heavily illustrated with line drawings and photos.
Price: $20.95 includes S&I US
Cruising Designs is a catalog of plans for great cruising boats, sail and power, for living aboard. First published in 1975 and since become a classic of its kind, Cruising Designs is a collection of basic boat plans of a variety of Benford designs, ranging in size from 7 to 131 feet in length, selected from the custom designs created over the past three decades. It is designed as the spark to fire one's ideas about the sort of boat one really wants or to suggest an idea for a new boat. The fourth edition includes a number of designs new since the third edition. Heavily illustrated with photographs and plan drawings, Cruising Designs is a classic wish book.
To Order Call 800-554-BOAT (2628)
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 Small Craft Plans
15 Complete Designs for Dinghies & Tenders
by The Benford Design Group
NEWLY REVISED, THIRD PRINTING
Softcover, 8½x11", 96 pages with line drawings and photos of completed boats.
Price: $22.95 includes S&I US
Small Craft Plans presents the boatbuilder and the dreamer with complete plans for each of the 15 small boats included in this collection. Taken from Benford's original drawings and reduced in scale, the plans are nevertheless complete and ready for lofting full size. The boats range in size from 7' to 18' and can be varied for rowing, sailing or small outboard engine. The book is illustrated with line drawings and photos of completed boats. Each chapter opens with a brief commentary about the design at hand and some particulars about boats built from it.
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 Pocket Cruisers & Tabloid Yachts, Volume I
Building Plans for Six Small Cruising Yachts
by The Benford Design Group
FOURTH EDITION
Softcover, 8½x11", 96 pages illustrated with line drawings and photos.
Price: $22.95 includes S&I US
Pocket Cruisers & Tabloid Yachts, Volume I, is a salty collection of complete building plans for six small cruising boats. From the drawings presented, you can build a fantail steam launch (17' or 25'), working tugboat (14' or 20'), supply boat (20'), cruiser (14' or 20'), long distance sailing cruiser (14'), or fantail catboat (20'). One look at these designs and you will know why they have been among the most popular designs offered by Benford. A special effort has been made to reproduce the plans to scale, so that the builder will be able to work easily from the prints in the book. This collection will provide materials not only for the dreamer but for those who are ready to build a boat. This new edition incorporates updates and revisions to the boat plans offered.
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 Trumpy
Robert Tolf, Author . Robert Picardat, Illustrator
Revised edition coming soon! Call for availability
TRUMPY celebrates the master craftsmanship and design represented by the renowned TRUMPY yachts. Included are some original TRUMPY plans, a complete list of all TRUMPY yachts built and those known to survive. Author Robert Tolf traces the TRUMPY family from its origins in Switzerland, through Norway and Italy and emigration to the United States. Both as an owner of Mathis Yacht Building Co. in Camden, New Jersey and finally at John Trumpy & Sons in Annapolis, Maryland, John Trumpy earned his place in yachting history by creating elegant and well-built yachts of enduring beauty. TRUMPY has received The Print Industries of Maryland's Award of Excellence for best book jacket in the hardcover category.
 You don't have to cut up the book!!! Tiller Publishing has also created the handsome TRUMPY Art Print to complement the publication of TRUMPY. This spectacular art print features 25 of the exquisite full-color paintings and drawings from TRUMPY. The deep blue background and rich gold type highlight Robert Picardat's stunning renderings of such elegant TRUMPY yachts as Sequoia II, the Presidential Yacht from 1933-1977. Printed on high quality, acid-free paper, the TRUMPY Art Print will grace the walls of any true lover of beautiful boats. Approximate size: 22" x 34". Price: $40.00 includes shipping & handling US.
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 Of Yachts & Men
by William Atkin
Softcover, 8½x11", 160 pages heavily illustrated with line drawings and photos.
Price: $27.95 includes S&I US
Of Yachts & Men is the famed boat designer's warm, entertaining and informative reminiscences of a lifetime enjoying boats. In his own words, it is "an account of many happy years of building, designing and living with small boats; with plans and illustrations of some of these boats, and the circumstances under which they were conceived." First published in 1949, this autobiography of William Atkin, "America's foremost designer of small yachts," was called one of the finest books on yachting subjects to be published in America. Mr. Atkin tells of his early days as a boat builder and designer, the pleasant characters he met at the water's edge, and includes a generous selection of his favorite little yachts. Along with his warm and cheerful autobiography go the stories behind the making of a dozen of his more famous ships, together with the drawings and details of their construction.
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 The Galley Collection
Vittles & Drinks for all Boats
by Ann Wilson, illustrated by Jo Gabeler Brooks
Softcover, 6"x9", 160 pages, illustrations.
Price: $21.95 includes S&I US
Before casting off, someone must decide what to take for "vittles and drinks". The Galley Collection offers tried and true recipes to enhance the nautical experience as well as practical tips on creating menus, makings lists, outfitting the galley and provisioning. Recipes for all boats? Yes. Everything from a small ice chest to all-out soup-to-nuts. Only the participants know who has more fun. Cooking is a creative art, with plenty of latitude for experimenting and substituting. The Galley Collection is your guide to good meals. What better place to enjoy them than on a boat? (Available Spring 1998)
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 Steel Boatbuilding
From Plans to Launching
by Thomas E. Colvin
Softcover, 7x10", 480 pages with many illustrations.
Price: $39.95 includes S&I US
Steel Boatbuilding combines both volumes of Colvin's masterwork on building boats from steel in one complete volume. This book offers the insights, experience and mature thinking of a man who has been a merchant seaman, naval architect, yacht and shipbuilder, sailmaker, and consultant to shipbuilders and governments on matters of vessel design and construction. There is, quite simply, no one more qualified than Tom Colvin to have written this book.
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 CRUISING SAILBOAT KINETICS
The Art, Science & Magic of Cruising Boat Design
by Danny Greene, N.A.
Softcover, 8½x11", 256 pages illustrated with line drawings and photographs.
Price: $34.95 includes S&I US
Cruising Sailboat Kinetics is a boat design handbook written for the everyday, non-professional sailor. It demystifies boat design terminology and concepts. It opens up for recreational sailors a new world of understanding why sailboats act the way they do. It explains how boat designers transform sailing dreams and abstract design criteria into today's sleek, functional three-dimensional craft. The first half of the book is a primer, a beginner's guide to design terminology and concepts, laced with photos and clear and non-technical illustrations. The second half of the book is a heavily illustrated showcase of the best cruising sailboat designs, including a lengthy explanation of what makes each design special. Author Danny Greene is a practicing naval architect and was the technical editor on the staff of Cruising World magazine, where he edited the "Designs" column for many years. Green lives aboard Brazen, a 32-foot cruising sailboat built to his own design. He has logged more than 50,000 cruising miles on a variety of boats, often sailing singlehanded and has had considerable practical hands-on experience in all aspects of sailboat construction.
To Order Call 800-554-BOAT (2628)
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 Voyaging On A Small Income
by Annie Hill
Soft cover, 8½x11", 192 pages, photos, illustrations and drawings including the Benford plywood and epoxy dory designs for Badger and variations from 26' to 37½'.
Price: $29.95 includes S&I US
Voyaging on a Small Income, a fitting subject in the current economy, giving people insight and how-to information on fulfilling their dreams. Annie wrote this book to answer all the questions that always come up about what they're doing. Annie and Pete Hill voyage on Badger, a Benford 34' Sailing Dory. An income of £1,300 ($2,500) per year lets them do this without worrying about stopping to work. They built Badger a decade ago, live aboard her, and have sailed her over 80,000 miles. It's a wonderfully descriptive account of not only what they're doing, but how they've done it and the philosophy of simplification and cost-benefit-analysis they use to sort out their priorities. For those who want to follow in their wake, or set off on their own adventures, there's a wealth of practical information on how-to-do-it here.
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 Seaworthiness
The Forgotten Factor
by C.A. Marchaj
Hardcover, 7½x10½", 384 pages illustrated with 140 line drawings and 50 photos.
Price: $49.95 includes S&I US
Seaworthiness, newly updated and revised, is a highly readable critical analysis of how the search for racing yacht performance has led to the development of sailing yachts with potentially dangerous seakeeping characteristics. Based upon the highest degree of practical and academic research, it demonstrates how modern yacht design often sacrifices safety for speed and for other considerations, and it maintains that dramatic changes in design philosophy are needed to prevent further loss of life at sea. This is a major work which will help change the thinking on popular design trends for both racing and cruising yachts.
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 Practical Junk Rig
Design Aerodynamics and Handling by HG Hasler and JK McLeod
Hardcover, 9¼x11¼", 244 pages illustrated with color and b&w photos, tables and drawings.
Price: $85.00 includes S&I US
Practical Junk Rig. In this encyclopedic volume the late "Blondie" Hasler and his partner Jock McLeod, both pre-eminent in their field, have synthesized 25 years of research and development of the junk rig as adapted to western craft. It is a work which has been welcomed by the growing number of yachtsmen and designers throughout the world who already enjoy the benefits of junk rig or who wish to design one. First published in 1988,it is the first and still foremost major work on the fore-and-aft Chinese junk rig. Practical Junk Rig examines the design and aerodynamic theory behind junk rigs and discusses how best to sail them. It is not a historical treatise but rather a detailed analysis of the intricacies of the rig, which will be of absorbing interest to both amateur owners and professional designers. It examines the rig in detail, the principles that underlie it, considers possible alternative shapes and arrangements and, of course, performance, all assisted by a wealth of detailed line illustrations.
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 Building the Weekend Skiff
by Richard Butz & John Montague
Softcover, 8½x11", 80 pages illustrated with plans, drawings, b&w photos, and sketches.
Price: $24.95 includes S&I US
Building the Weekend Skiff offers detailed plans and instructions for building a simple boat at low cost with easily obtainable materials and basic hand tools. The Weekend Skiff is fifteen feet in length, can hold two adults or several children, and is adaptable for oars, sail or a small outboard engine.This is a fun way to spend a weekend and get an excellent small boat easily and inexpensively. The Weekend Skiff is designed for two adults or several children and can be adapted to sail or small outboard. It is a great family project, ideal for introductory boat building courses and for community and school-based boat building experiences. Inexpensive to build, using common tools, several sheets of marine plywood and a few pieces of dimensional lumber, The Weekend Skiff can give anyone access to boat building and a boat. It can be finished with a variety of coatings, suited to your taste and budget.
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 Building the Six-Hour Canoe
Design by Mike O'Brien . Text by Richard Butz . Illustration by John Montague .
Line Art by William Bartoo
THIRD PRINTING. Softcover, 8½x11", 65 pages with 80 illustrations and photographs.
Price: $20.00 includes S&I US
Building the Six-Hour Canoe contains scale plans, specifications, a tool list, step-by-step instructions, and even a helpful explanation of how to paddle the canoe. All the building operations are clearly illustrated with photos and sketches. The canoe is constructed from a single 4'x16' sheet of marine plywood and a few pieces of dimensional lumber and, with epoxy glued seams, is watertight from the moment it hits the water. When completed, the canoe is 15'3" in length with a 31½" beam. Inexpensive to build using ordinary tools and materials, the canoe gives everybody access to boatbuilding and a boat. Light, easy to carry and handle, it can be a personal favorite. Or it can be the ideal boat for introductory boatbuilding courses and for community and/or school based building experiences.
To Order Call 800-554-BOAT (2628)
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 Building Sweet Dream
by Mark Pettingill
Softcover, 8½x11", 176 pages with many illustrations and photographs.
Price: $29.95 includes S&I US
Building Sweet Dream is a complete how-to manual covering all phases of building and finishing six versions of a 12-, 13- or 14-foot 28-lb. arc-bottom canoe. It includes dimensioned hull plans, a detailed building sequence heavily illustrated with step-by-step photographs, tips and techniques for painting and varnishing, and hard-to-find background and reference material. Anyone with a few basic hand and electric tools and a small workshop or one-car garage can build Sweet Dream. This is a boatbuilding project for any level of boatbuilding or canoeing experience. Sweet Dream is shapely, strong, and durable.
To Order Call 800-554-BOAT (2628)
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 Boats by Purdy
by Alan E. Dinn
Softcover, 8 ½ x 11", 208 pages with many illustrations and photographs.
Price: $44.95 includes S&I US
This is a fascinating and an authoritative history of the Purdy Boat Company, one of the most famous makers of custom yachts and racing boats in the 1920s and 1930s, based on official company documents and correspondence and on reminiscences of family.
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