Steel Boat Building: From Plans to Launching

Colvin, Thomas E.

ISBN 10: 0877423121 / ISBN 13: 9780877423126

Published by Camden, Maine, U.S.A.: Intl Marine Pub, 1992

About this Item

trade paperback in very good condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Steel Boat Building: From Plans to Launching
• Publisher: Camden, Maine, U.S.A.: Intl Marine Pub
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877423121
• ISBN 13: 9780877423126
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • crafts

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Synopsis

Combining 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.

About the Author

Thomas E. Colvin is a naval architect, builder, and consultant who apprenticed on some of the leading European yards after World War II and has since built numerous steel, aluminum, and wooden boats. He has been a senior designer at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, a consulting naval architect to Kaiser Aluminum Company, and president of his own boatbuilding and sailmaking enterprises. He lives in Alva, Florida.