Recommended Boat Building Sites

[Maurice Mcmurry]

Some purists do not consider strippers to be real boat building. I do not begrudge strip built because the book Canoe Craft was so very helpful. I read a lot of traditional boat building books. I did not get the big picture of how to get from a table of offsets to making and setting up station molds until I read Canoe Craft. I did chose lapstrake for the Rangeley. I have an Adirondack Guide Boat on the drawing board. Kenneth Durant played a role in popularizing strip planking when he documented a shortcut for making Adirondack Guide Boats.

If anyone would like full size tracings of the stations for the Rangeley Boat (as taken off by John Gardner). I can trace mine and send them in rolled in a tube for a small fee.

Maurice Mcmurry's Album: Resources For Handy People