This is the first of three major catalogues compiled by the editors of WoodenBoat Magazine. The other books in this series are 'Thirty Wooden Boats' and 'Forty Wooden Boats'.

Clear concise manual for amateurs offers detailed illustrated instructions for building 16 basic wooden craft — rowboats, sailboats, outboards, runabouts, hydroplane, more. 15 halftones. 49 line illustrations.

This magnificent collection of full-color photographs by renowned photographer Benjamin Mendlowitz of beautiful vessels includes wooden boats ranging from simple prams to sailing and power yachts. Noted marine historian Maynard Bray provides commentary on more than 90 of the world's most photogenic boats.

David C. "Bud" McIntosh was a designer, builder, and sailor of large and small wooden cruising boats for more than 50 years, and wrote about it for over 10 of those years. He made his home on New Hampshire's Piscataqua River, where he was teacher and friend to both amateur and professional boatbuilders.

Assembled by WoodenBoat magazine, Forty Wooden Boats contains classic and contemporary designs of cruising boats, powerboats, daysailers, performance rowing craft, sailing and pulling boats, and canoes and kayaks.....Each design is given two pages, with profile lines and hull sectional lines so that the would-be owner can see the shape of the three dimensional boat. Honest commentary about the design particulars including LOA, LWL, beam, draft, displacement, and sail area are included, as well as skill level, type of construction, performance, and more.....Here are forty different designs, from old masters as well as from promising young architects, none of which are repeated in Fifty Wooden Boats or Thirty Wooden Boats.

A catalogue of 50 construction plans for a wide variety of sailing craft, powerboats and rowing boats designed for building in marine plywood, lapstrake, carvel or cold-moulded construction. There are skiffs and catboats, dinghies and daysailers, launches and lapstrake canoes, many designed by top designers of this century, including John Alden, BB Crowninshield, Uffa Fox, Fenwick Williams, Winthorp Warner, Thomas Gillmer, Charles Wittholz and Joel White.