American Small Sailing Craft, Their Design, Development, and Construction

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W. W. Norton & Company, 1951 - Science - 363 pages
American Small Sailing Craft (originally published 1951) is considered the classic among small-boat builders and historians. In it Chapelle has documented many fast-vanishing working boats, making this the authoritative history of a passing maritime fleet.
 

Contents

Introduction
3
The Bateau
33
Rigs
41
The Shallops
136
The Crotch Island Boat
145
The Squaresterned Hampton Boat
152
The Tancook Whaler
162
No Mans Land Boat
168
The Skiff and YawlBoat
193
Sloops and Catboats
232
Foreigners and a Native
277
The San Francisco Dago Boat
286
The Newcomer the Vbottom
305
8
341
Index
232

The Erie Boat
178
The Huron Boat
184

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About the author (1951)

Howard I. Chapelle (1901-1975) was an American naval architect, and curator of maritime history at the Smithsonian Institution. In addition, he authored many books and articles books on maritime history and marine architecture, including Yacht Designing and Planning, Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction, The History of American Sailing Ships, The History of the American Sailing Navy: The Ships and Their Development, American Small Sailing Craft, and many more.

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