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The Canoe Shop: Three Elegant Wooden Canoes Anyone Can Build | 
 enlarge | Author: Chris Kulczycki
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 598161
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 161
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.3
ISBN: 007137227X
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.829
UPC: 639785801610
EAN: 9780071372275
ASIN: 007137227X
Publication Date: March 30, 2001
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Product Description
A lavishly illustrated, user-friendly guide for novices and experienced boat builders alike, The Canoe Shop provides plans and building instructions for three graceful and rugged touring canoes—a 12-foot double-paddle canoe, a 14-foot solo canoe, and a 16-foot tandem boat—that virtually anyone can build directly from the book. Following the same critically acclaimed format found in his classic, The New Kayak Shop, leading North American boat designer Chris Kulczycki walks readers through the entire building process for each boat. One standout feature of The Canoe Shop is a revolutionary, simplified approach to lapstrake construction which makes this traditional technique—considered by many to be the finest method of wooden boat construction—available to amateurs for the first time. - Features three original designs from one of the most respected small-boat designers - Contains dozens of illustrations and step-by-step building instructions
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 Suitable as building guide? No! April 13, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I started building the Sassafras 12 with the help of this book and regret to say that it was not a succes. After having spent a good 20 hours in measuring and cutting the planks I found that the two halves which formed each one plank, did not match. There simply was no way in positioning and bonding them into a smooth curve. I have build small boats before and have checked and rechecked every step, to no avail. E-mail contact with publisher and writer learned me that it was advised to use complete and updated full scale drawings rather than the book, although they denied the inaccuracies that I have found. For me, the book turned out to be worse than a waste of money. In the end I bought complete plans of a similar design with another design firm. Sorry to write such an unhappy review, but this is the way it is!
Hans van Poelje
 Good, but not unique! May 6, 2004
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book is a "How-To" manual to build the Sassafras Canoes from CLC. If this is the canoe you want to build, then it is excellent and you should buy this book. If however, you want general information on building wooden canoes, don't bother. There is nothing unique in this book (for the generic canoe builder) that you cannot get from other books, or indeed by just browsing on the internet.The one thing that I did learn was that I do NOT want to build this design. So for the price of the book, it saved me from making an expensive mistake. This is not to suggest that there is anything wrong with either the design or CLC, just that the construction method and the look of the finished canoe are not to my personal taste.
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