Author: BUTX & MONTAGUE
Format: HARDBACK
Building the Weekend Skiff offers detailed plans and instructions for building a simple boat at low cost with easily obtainable materials and basic hand tools. The Weekend Skiff is fifteen feet in length, can hold two adults or several children, and is adaptable for oars, sail or a small outboard engine.
This is a fun way to spend a weekend and get an excellent small boat easily and inexpensively. The Weekend Skiff is designed for two adults or several children and can be adapted to sail or small outboard. It is a great family project, ideal for introductory boat building courses and for community and school-based boat building experiences. Inexpensive to build, using common tools, - several sheets of marine plywood and a few pieces of dimensional lumber, The Weekend Skiff can give anyone access to boat building and a boat. It can be finished with a variety of coatings, suited to your taste and budget.
Richard Butz and John Montague are founders, with William Bartoo, of the Watercraft Studies Program at Buffalo State College in Buffalo, New York. Beginning with the building of a single kayak in a survey course in wood design, the program has grown to include an academic minor, research in historic craft indigenous to the eastern Great Lakes and ever-expanding community and public school boatbuilding projects. Richard Butz, a potter and administrator, is currently working on several Adirondack guideboats and administers watercraft studies activities. John Montague, a design historian, is building a Caledonia yawl boat and is primarily responsible for the historic research and archival activities of the program. With their colleague, William Bartoo, they created the popular book, Building the Six-Hour Canoe. All three are faculty and teach boatbuilding courses, lecture outside the - college, conduct workshops in boatbuilding and consult on community and public school partnerships.
ISBN 9781888671100