Boatbuilding with Baltek DuraKore
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.42 (617 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 007008212X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has served as the captain of a high-speed ferry serving the Lake Erie islands from Port Clinton, Ohio. Brown holds a U.S. He has also been employed as a boatbuilder and repairer, and for 17 years was a television news producer, writing and producing more than 1,500 hours of news/documentary scripts and receiving an
Be sure! Joshua Paul Werblin I made the mistake of purchasing this book because I was curious about Baltek products and how to use them. I think you can get that kind of information for free elsewhere (on the web or from Baltek).HOWEVER, if you will be building a boat out of that materal, and y. Great book on a time-saving process. This book fully explains the Baltek method of boat building. The method is a real time saver over standard cold-molded planking methods and it results in a stronger hull. The method allows for construction of all hull shapes using ordinary tools. Check this out if y. Merle said Book content worthwhile. Book condition was very good.The content had some useful details but was not the a step-by-step manual suggested by the title. Without having read from other sources I could not build a craft from this book. Even so, I'm glad of my purchase.
Written in close collaboration with and endorsed by the Baltek Corporation, this is the first book to detail the use of the revolutionary boatbuilding material that has taken the small-scale professional boatbuilding world by storm.. Using Baltek's DuraKore, a precision manufactured balsa-and-hardwood sandwich, each half-hull for Dick Newick's famous 40-foot racing trimaran Ocean Surfer was completed by four people in just six hours. And a new manmade "wood" and special marine epoxy glues permit building virtually any hull shape in just days instead of weeks and years. Computers have all but eliminated the onerous lofting stage. Using the materials and methods in this ground-breaking book, amateurs and small-scale professionals can build a high-tech colored-laminate boat in less time than it once took just to loft the design for conventional construction
``The definitive guide to building one-off hi-tech composite power and sail boats of virtually any shape for professional and home builders without time-consuming, costly plugs and conventional fiberglass molds.'' (Australian Amateur Boatbuilder)`` .A ground-breaking book.'' (Boat Plans International Newsletter)