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The book claims in it's little prologue that it will inspire the reader to dream of having a boat and sailing the open seas. While true that is all this book is. I bought the book thinking that it contained plans for building boats. Instead, it contains teasers for plans and the different difficulty rating for building each boat. It also shows how much the plans cost. I love the book but just so you know, there are not any actual plans that one could build a boat from. Just teasers. Get the book from your local library; you don't need to spend any money on it.
This is the first of several catalog collections offered by the Staff of "Wooden Boat" Magazine, containing plans for sale of boats that were featured in various articles. I first bought this in 1984, when I purchased plans for "Martha's Tender", a 9'6" plywood tender (dinghy) described in "WB" #45, 46, & 47. A subsequent book following a class at the Woodenboat School in Brooklin, ME, that built a "Martha's Tender" (designed by Joel White) was released and tiled: "Building the Heidi". If you are at all interested in boats or even building a wooden boat of any size, rowing, sailing, or power, I highly recommend both "WoodenBoat" Magazine and the Plan catalogs such as this one, that they publish, for both reading and reference. (BTW, this book is still in print and available from "WoodenBoat".)Read full review
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Misleading
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Caution! This book may cause an uncontrollable urge to buy a set of plans and then rush out to your shop and begin making big pieces of wood into smaller pieces of wood and creating large piles of sawdust and wood shavings.
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