Boat-building and boating

This is not a book for yacht-builders, but it is intended for beginners in the art of boat-building, for boys and men who wish to make something with which they may navigate the waters of ponds, lakes, or streams. It begins with the most primitive crafts composed of slabs or logs and works up to scows, houseboats, skiffs, canoes and simple forms of sailing craft, a motorboat, and there it stops. There are so many books and magazines devoted to the higher arts of ship-building for the graduates to use, besides the many manufacturing houses which furnish all the parts of a sail-boat, yacht, or motor-boat for the ambitious boat-builder to put together himself, that it is unnecessary for the author to invade that territory.

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Table of Contents:

Copyright

PREFACE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I HOW TO CROSS A STREAM ON A LOG

CHAPTER II HOME-MADE BOATS

CHAPTER III A RAFT THAT WILL SAIL

CHAPTER IV CANOES

CHAPTER V CANOES AND BOATING STUNTS

CHAPTER VI THE BIRCH-BARK

CHAPTER VII HOW TO BUILD A PADDLING DORY

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