This book is included in the Self Reliance Transportation section.
Preface
THIS is not a book for yacht-builders, but it is intended for
beginners in the art of boat-building, for boys and men who wish
to make something with which they may navigate the waters
of ponds, lakes, or streams. It begins with the most primitive
crafts composed of slabs or logs and works up to scows, houseboats,
skiffs, canoes and simple forms of sailing craft, a motorboat,
and there it stops. There are so many books and magazines
devoted to the higher arts of ship-building for the graduates
to use, besides the many manufacturing houses which furnish all
the parts of a sail-boat, yacht, or motor-boat for the ambitious
boat-builder to put together himself, that it is unnecessary for the
author to invade that territory.
Many of the designs in this book have appeared in magazines
to which the author contributed, or in his own books on general
subjects, and all these have been successfully built by hundreds of
boys and men.
Many of them are the author's own inventions, and the others
are his own adaptations of well-known and long-tried models.
In writing and collecting this material for boat-builders from his
other works and placing them in one volume, the author feels that
he is fulfilling the wishes of many of his old readers and offering a
useful book to a large audience of new recruits to the army of
those who believe in the good old American doctrine of: "If
you want a thing done, do it yourself." And by doing it yourself
you not only add to your skill and resourcefulness, but, what
is even more important, you develop your own self-reliance and
manhood.
No one man can think of everything connected with any one
subject, and the author gratefully acknowledges his indebtedness
to several sportsmen friends, especially to his camp-mate, Mr.
F. K. Vreeland, and his young friend, Mr. Samuel Jackson, for
suggestions of great value to both writer and reader.
DAN BEARD.
FLUSHING, L. I., Sept., 1911.
Contents
Chapter I. How TO CROSS A STREAM ON A LOG
Chapter II. HOME-MADE BOATS
Chapter III. A RAFT THAT WILL SAIL
Chapter IV. CANOES
Chapter V. CANOES AND BOATING STUNTS
Chapter VI. THE BIRCH-BARK
Chapter VII. How TO BUILD A PADDLING DORY
Chapter VIII. THE LANDLUBBER'S CHAPTER
Chapter IX. How TO RIG AND SAIL SMALL BOATS
Chapter X. MORE RIGS OF ALL KINDS FOR SMALL BOATS
Chapter XI. KNOTS, BENDS, AND HITCHES
Chapter XII. How TO BUILD A CHEAP BOAT
Chapter XIII. A "ROUGH-AND-READY" BOAT
Chapter XIV. How TO BUILD CHEAP AND SUBSTANTIAL HOUSE-BOATS
Chapter XV. A CHEAP AND SPEEDY MOTOR-BOAT
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