Building Strip-Planked Boats [ペーパーバック]

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.

I'm currently makeing a caone out of this book. The first 150 pages tell you about cutting the wood and laying fiberglass. Things you need to do for all 3 of the boats that you can build from this book. It gives great detail on how to do stuff and the material needed. So If you want to know how to build a boat this is a 5 star book, but if your going to actually build the boat its a little diffrent story.
It gives you the form points so you can plot the points out on graph paper I did it using a program call CAD at school. I'm only 17 so my wood working knowledge is limited. But so far I'm doing great I have all the forms layed out and done. SO my only problem, is It tells you how to make a one seat less than 150LB person caonoe. What grown man weighs 150LB and u cant take any gear with you even if you are in that range. Plus the seat is the bottom of the boat. It's more of a kayak than a canoe.
Bottom line if you want to build a normal 2 person coanoe with about 500 LB max weight this is NOT your book. If you just want to build a little boat to dink around in and it says it will weigh around 15Lb and 10feet long so it will be light.
I guess I was hoping that by canoe it meant a 16 foot 2 person canoe.

There are many good points in this book but in my opinion it is trying to be too much for too wide an audience. In the process of covering multiple types of craft the "gems" are somewhat hidden. It was a good effort, but I wish in this case it had been more linear in the presentation. Don't get me wrong, I would buy it again.