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by Howard I. Chapelle

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  • ISBN: 0393031438
  • Category: Engineering
  • Author: Howard I. Chapelle
  • Subcategory: Transportation
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Later prt. edition (December 17, 1951)
  • Pages: 363 pages
  • FB2 size: 1446 kb
  • EPUB size: 1895 kb
  • Rating: 4.4
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American Small Sailing Craft (originally published 1951) is considered the classic among small-boat builders and historians. In it Chapelle has documented many fast-vanishing working boats.

American Small Sailing Craft (originally published 1951) is considered the classic among small-boat builders and historians. Howard I. Chapelle (1901-1975) was an American naval architect, and curator of maritime history at the Smithsonian Institution. In it Chapelle has documented many fast-vanishing working boats, making this the authoritative history of a passing maritime fleet.

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His other books include: American Sailing Craft. American Small Sailing Craft. The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America, with Edwin T. Adney. Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction. The History of the American Sailing Navy: The Ships and Their Development. Chesapeake Bay Crabbing Skiffs". The History of American Sailing Ships. The National Watercraft Collection. Notes on Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks". Yacht Designing and Planning. 2. catopower and BETAQDAVE reacted to this.

Chapelle was a small-boat enthusiast and sailor. His book American Small Sailing Craft (1951) is considered a classic among small-boat builders and historians.

Howard Irving Chapelle. Chapelle was a small-boat enthusiast and sailor. He felt that inexpensive yachts based on traditional workboats were the most practical way to go sailing and designed a number of small boats His book American Small Sailing Craft (1951) is considered a classic among small-boat builders and historians. In it he documented many fast-vanishing American working boats. His other books include: American Sailing Craft (1936).

Chapelle, Howard I. American Small Sailing Craft, Their Design, Development, and Construction. Norton & Company, Inc, 1951 ISBN: 9780393031430. Catalog of traditional American workboats, detailing their development and uses

Chapelle, Howard I. Catalog of traditional American workboats, detailing their development and uses. Skene, Norman L. Elements of Yacht Design. New York, NY: Kennedy Bros. Stephens, W. P. Traditions and Memories of American Yachting. Camden, ME: International Marine Publishing Company, 1981.

Between a rock and a hard place: sailing boat crash.

Classic American Sailing Craft, Camden, Maine. Lots of classic American sailing craft at the Gloucester Schooner Festival, on my Flickr site: Heather N. Monroe.

From the author of Yacht Designing and Planning and Boatbuilding: the definitive history and survey of the great classic American small sailing craft.

American Small Sailing Craft (originally published 1951) is considered the classic among small-boat builders and historians. In it Chapelle has documented many fast-vanishing working boats, making this the authoritative history of a passing maritime fleet. Illustrated throughout
Reviews about American Small Sailing Craft: Their Design, Development and Construction (7):
Molotok
If you are a wooden model ship builder, but don't enjoy the tedium and repetitive nature of rigging a three-masted square rigger, then, I suggest that there is simply no better book available for hull and rigging plans. I shudder to think what we would have lost to time if Howard Chapelle hadn't performed his exacting research. This book contains enough plans of beautiful working boats to last several lifetimes for the model builder. Also see "The American Fishing Schooner", also by Chapelle, if you want to make a schooner and don't want to do another Bluenose.
Lyrtois
This, as I said, is the Bible of traditional American small boats. Not only that, but it is chock full of plans. There's enough information in here to build a dozen boats if you have a mind to and you don't have to visit Mystic Seaport to learn how. Nothing against Mystic. I'm a life member and I've studied with some of their best, including John Gardner. But this and Chapelle's Boatbuilding are the cornerstones of American boatbuilding history. And not just academic stuff, but practical information the way it was taught way back when.
Sirara
This is a fun read for anyone who has ever cleared out the garage or spoiled the back yard to build with wood, glue, fabric, resin, nail and screw their own personal watercraft. Chapelle wrote this when these boats still existed, largely decaying on some marina's back lot. His attention to detail was meticulous; his offsets, perfect for the modeler. His clear love for the art of wooden boat building is obvious. I had a copy of this book when I was an 18-yr old model builder, at 65 it is a gift for a friend. It is a reference classic and a wonderful gift for the small boat enthusiast.
Doulkree
Chapelle's books are all VERY good. This guy took the time to carefully study boats and describe them with plans that allow reasonably talented folks to build one of their own. This is a replacement copy for one I "loaned" out and never got back. If you talk to any serious or semi serious boat builder, she/he will have several Chapell books on the shelf. He is that good.
nailer
This is an older and quite exhastive work that deals almost exclusively with the last working sailing craft before power took over. It is well written, well laid out. It doesn't give much info on West Coasr rigs or pleasure craft. I bought it to study one particular boat, and on that one it did a fine job. It also has that old fashion lines and offsets for those of you interested and know how to use them. Within those limitations I recommend the book.
Levion
Each section on the boat type is both too short and long enough. I wanted more text on dories, and Whitehalls, my favorite boats but there was enough about Bermuda fishing boats and Jersey Shore boats to pique my interest to go google them and see if I could find a modern version to look at. If you are considering buying or building a 19th century style boat this is a great guide to what you are getting. It's original purpose and design guidelines. It is not a how to build a boat unless you already know what you are doing and can read micro drawings of lines. To a master boat builder this book would be enough to a garage shop guy, only a taste.
I bought it to research Jersey Shore boats and ended up reading it all. A boat nuts bible.
Kinashand
A classic, and directly responsible for saving of hundreds of extinct boat designs, as well as the renaissance of wooden boat building. However, this really only for those that already hip-deep in the subject. An excellent reference.
I find this kind of stuff interesting, am presently building a Swampscott like dory and thinking about the next boat. The line scantlings are in extremely fine print that cannot be read without a magnifying glass. Possibly a copy machine or some computer application could zoom in to make the dimensions of a desired boat seeable.

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