Steel Boat Building From Plans to Launching

Colvin, Thomas E.

ISBN 10: 0877423121 / ISBN 13: 9780877423126

Published by Intl Marine Pub Co, Camden, ME, 1992

About this Item

Cover wraps have wear to edges and front corners. Top corner is creased and front cover is lightly sprung. Bottom corner edge of text is soiled. Covers are lightly scratched. ; Originally published in two volumes this edition combines volumes 1 & 2. Considered a classic work on steel boatbuilding. Text is clean and unmarked, spine is tight. Many black & white illustrations. ; 9.9 X 6.8 X 1.0 inches; 196 pages.

Seller Inventory # 21815

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Steel Boat Building From Plans to Launching
• Publisher: Intl Marine Pub Co, Camden, ME
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877423121
• ISBN 13: 9780877423126
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Paperback Edition.
• Condition: Good+

About this title

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.