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The following are some books which you may find interesting. Purchases made here are through Amazon.com not Seawing Boats although your purchases do help me maintain this web page. I personally have most of these books and They all are worth the purchase price.

Canoe and Kayak Building

Buy it today! Building the Greenland Kayak: A Manual for Its Construction and Use
Christopher Cunningham
This book offers complete plans and instructions for building a lashed-frame, fabric-covered Greenland kayak.

Buy it today! Hooper Bay Kayak Construction David W. Zimmerly

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The KAYAK SHOP by Chris Kulsczyki, Ragged Mountain Press)

Covers the basics of stitch and glue kayak building and includes measured drawings of several boats.

NEW!!! The New Kayak Shop: More Elegant Wooden Kayaks Anyone Can Build, by Chris Kulczycki Mcgraw Hill

Up-dated book with new boats, techniques and information.

Buy it today! The Strip-Built Sea Kayak by Nick Schade, Ragged Mountain Press)

This book covers in detail the construction of unique, high performance strip built kayaks. You will find some photos and drawings of my work too. Measured drawings of several boats included.

Buy it today! New!!! Kayakcraft : Fine Woodstrip Kayak Construction, by Ted Moores (Illustrator), Jennifer Moores (Photographer)

Buy it today! Skin on frame
The Aleutian Kayak: Origins, Construction, and Use of The Traditional Seagoing Baidarka, by Wolfgang Brinck, McGraw Hill

How to build skin on frame Baidarkas the traditional way.

Buy it today! The Wood and Canvas Kayak by George Putz, International Marine, 1990

Greenland style skin on frame kayak using modern materials.

Buy it today! Building Skin-On-Frame Boats, By Robert Morris, Illustrated by Edward R. Turner, Hartley & Marks 2000,
Detailed information on skin and frame boat building including Greenland and Aleutian style kayaks

Buy it today! Qayaq : Kayaks of Alaska and Siberia, by David Zimmerly, Paul Gardinier, University of Alaska Press, 2000
A wealth of information about arctic kayaks

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Baidarka, by George Dyson, Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
History of Aleutian Kayaks and how to build a skin on frame boat using aluminum tubing and nylon cloth

Canoes

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Canoes
Canoecraft : A Harrowsmith Illustrated Guide to Woodstrip Construction by Ted Moores and Merilyn Mohr(Contributor)

The art of strip building canoes.

Buy it today! Featherweight Boatbuilding : A Woodenboat Book by Henry "Mac" McCarthy, Woodenboat Publications, 1996
Building a small double paddle canoe

Buy it today! Ultralight Boatbuilding, by Thomas Hill, Frank Sletson (Contributor)

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The Bark Canoes And Skin Boats Of North America, by Edwin Tappan Adney and Howard I. Chappelle, Smithsonian Institution Press.
Descriptions of Native American canoes, kayaks and boats.

The Wood and Canvas Canoe : A Complete Guide to Its History, Construction, Restoration, and Maintenance, by Jerry Stelmock and Rollin Thurlow, Tilbury House Publishers, 1987

All you need to know about classic canoes.

Building The Maine Guide Canoe, By Jerry Stelmok, Lyons Press, 1992

How to build a wood-canvas canoe

Buy it today! Illustrated Guide to Wood Strip Canoe Building
Susan Van Leuven

Buy it today! Building a Strip Canoe  Gil Gilpatrick
Most boat building books you'll read spend the first few chapters talking about choosing the right tools, glue, wood, space, until about half way though you actually get to read something useful. Not this one. This book launches straight into designs, and construction. It also gives one of the best pieces of advice I've ever come across as a professional boat builder.

Buy it today! Building Your Kevlar Canoe: A Foolproof Method and Three Foolproof Designs
James Moran
The methods detailed in this book aim to allow even complete novices to build a strong, usable canoe. The text offers users a cost-effective way of making canoes using the strongest, lightest miracle fibre - Kevlar. It shows how to make a quality canoe for 20-30 percent of the cost of a ready-made canoe with no previous experience.

Buy it today! Building a Birchbark Canoe: The Algonquin "Wabanaki Teiman"
David Gidmark

Boat Building

Buy it today! Boatbuilding, A Complete Handbook of wooden Boat Construction, by Howard I Chappelle, W.W. Norton, 1994.

Buy it today! Building Classic Small Craft by John Gardner, International Marine, Camden, Maine, 1977.
History and details of the construction on a number of small craft including dories, whitehalls, skiffs, and more.

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Buy it today!
The Dory Book by John Gardner, Mystic Seaport Museum Publications, 1987. Detailed descriptions of dorys and how to build them.
The Dory Model Book by Harold "Dynamite" Payson, His web site

About other types of boats

Buy it today! American Small Sailing Craft by Howard I Chappelle, W.W. Norton, 1951.

Descriptions and figures of American small craft. Including Friendship sloops, Catboats, and more.

Buy it today! On the Hawser, a Tugboat Album by Steven Lang and Peter Specter, Down East books, Camden, Maine, 1980.
The best source of information and photos of U.S. tugs that I know of.

Buy it today! Schooners and Schooner Barges by Paul C. Morris, Lower Cape Publishing, Orleans, Massachusetts, 1984.
Lots of information about coastal schooners, barges and towing during the late 19th century and early to mid twentieth century.

Buy it today! The American Fishing Schooners by Howard I Cappelle, W.W. Norton, 1995.

Detailed descriptions and figures of New England fishing schooners. Plenty of detail to build a model from.

Buy it today! The built up ship model, by Charles G. Davis, Dover Publications, 1990.

Description of building a plank on frame model of the American Revolutionary ship Lexington.

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