Pete Culler on Wooden Boats: The Master Craftsman's Collected Teachings on Boat Design, Building, Repair and Use

* Culler is a seminal figure in the field, and his works are acknowledged as classics and are cited constantly in discussions of traditional boat building and design
* Foreword by Peter Vermilya, small craft curator of Mystic Seaport
* Burke served for years as Culler?s protege and published a catalog of Culler?s designs

Table of contents


Foreword, by Peter T. Vermilya
Introduction, by John Burke
Skiffs and Schooners
Preface
Experience Starts When You Begin
Building the Spray
Boatbuilding
Materials
Tools
Flat Bottoms
File Bottoms
Lapstrake
Carvel Planking
Engines, Oars, and Sails
The Sprit Rig
Other Rigs, Including the Ketch
The Schooner Rig
Water, Stoves, Anchors, Fuel, Centerboards, and Cabins
Paints, Oils, and Goo
Sailors, Old and Young
Boats, Oars, and Rowing
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Pleasures of Rowing
Rowing Craft
Oars and Oarmaking
Oarlocks and Other Rowing Gear
Notes on Rowing
Double-Paddle Canoes
A Cruise in a Pulling Boat
Articles
Old Ways Work
Boat-Building Used to Be...
On Rowing and Boats
Sand Dolly
Wheelbarrow Boat
What Makes Classics Real
Fish Oil, Sour Milk, and Stale Beer
The Mallets Cried, Hollered, Bellowed, and Chirped
Natural Knees
Quick and Dirty Boats
Tarred Rigging and Stropped Blocks
Design Commentaries
Race Point Surfboat Coskata
Wherry Yawl for a Schooner
Yawlboat for Integrity
Two Steam Launches
Fast Outboard Launch
Concordia Towboat Gracie Iii
Baltimore Clipper Schooner Lizard King
Boat Plans by R.D. Culler
Index