Building Strip-Planked Boats
By Nick Schade
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press | 288 Pages | 2009 | ISBN: 0071475249 | PDF | 18.3 MB




Product Description:

The first comprehensive book on stripbuilding almost any type of small boat


"Strip-planking" is a method of building boats using narrow, thin strips of wood edge-glued together. It is also commonly known as "strip-building" or "cedar-strip" for the most common wood used in the process. It is a practical, easy way for inexperienced boat builders to make a wooden boat. While the method is used to make quite large boats, it is particularly well suited for small boats of the car-toppable variety.

This book describes the procedure of building a boat with strips of wood, covering those strips with fiberglass and epoxy and creating a strong, lightweight and beautiful boat from the beginning stages all the way through to completion. It provides instructions to build three very different boat, a pram style dinghy, a small, double-paddle canoe, and a high performance sea kayak. Beyond learning how to build these particular boats, the book provides enough background that you should be able to build just about any small boat using the strip-planked method.


Summary: 11 more years of strip building experience
Rating: 5

Nick's 11 more years of experience are put into this book! a lot of little tips that can help any one building small wooden boats i wish it had three more kayaks but i guess a canoe and a pram is appealing to a larger crowd... don't miss this book and if you have'nt read the first book order them both they are a must for anyone in love of building their own small wooden boats.


Summary: A Good Book for Builders of Wood-Strip and Fiberglass Boats
Rating: 4

Building Strip-Planked Boats by Nick Schade primarily describes methods for building beautiful boats from wood strips, fiberglass and epoxy. It updates many techniques that were described in the author's earlier book, The Strip-Built Sea Kayak. This book also provides offset dimensions and instructions to build a dinghy, a one-person canoe and a rough-water sea kayak.

This book provides an excellent overview of wood-core and fiberglass construction, and detailed information on working with wood strips, fiberglass and epoxy. Many practical tips are included, as well as suggestions for avoiding and dealing with the most common problems.

However, the book seems to be missing a few chapters. Significant information for the first-time builder is absent in this book: The kayak section contains no information on the construction of bulkheads, footbraces, rudders, retractable skegs, or outfitting the boat with deck rigging and a seat. Many best practices are missing, such as measuring epoxy with nested cups, preserving brushes and rollers by freezing, pre-taping seams for joining hull and deck, and using webbing for deck riggings.

Other best building practices receive only scant mention, such as using masking tape and a sharp blade to trim secondary layers of fiberglass. The book would also have benefited from more photographs of the finished boats.

The book would have been more appealing if it offered designs for a more general-purpose canoe and a more general-purpose kayak, as fewer people will be interested in these niche designs.

This book is a good supplement for boat-builders, but most first-time builders of a strip boat would probably learn more from the step-by-step organization of Nick Schade's first book, The Strip-Built Sea Kayak: Three Rugged, Beautiful Boats You Can Build, or Ted Moores' books Canoecraft: An Illustrated Guide to Fine Woodstrip Construction and Kayakcraft: Fine Woodstrip Kayak Construction. This is a 3-star book.
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