Excerpt from How to Build a Motor Launch Throughout the world, and remarkably so in this country, there are many bodies of water - lakes, rivers and ponds - that are not navigable by sail-craft, owing to their being surrounded by high banks or having rapid currents. On these waterways until of late years nothing could be used but rowboats. It is for voyaging in such waters the motor boat is particularly adapted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This special re-print edition of Charles D.Mower's book "How To Build a Motor Launch" has not been available to those interested in motor boats and boat building since its first publication in 1901.A real treasury of information on building motor boats scratch, complete with detailed plans. Note: This public domain edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background. This edition is reprinted in accordance to Federal Law.

This special re-print edition of the Motor Boat Publishing Company's book "Nine Motor Boats and How To Build Them" has not been available to those interested in motor boats and boat building since its first publication in 1913.A real treasury of information on building motor boats scratch, complete with detailed plans. Chapters include plans for PopGun: A 20 Foot Runabout, A 25 Foot Cruiser, A Single Step Hydroplane, Sunfish: A 32 Foot Day Cruiser, MollyHawk: A 28 Foot Cruiser, Beaver: A 23 Foot Cruiser, A 25 Foot Runabout, A Dead Rise Runabout and A Light Draft Stern Wheel Boat.Note: This public domain edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background. This edition is reprinted in accordance to Federal Law.

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This volume contains a collection of classic articles on the subject of designing and building motor boats, with information on equipment, methods, common problems, materials, where to begin, installing motors, and much more. Carefully selected for a modern readership, this timeless volume will be of considerable utility to anyone with a practical interest in boating or sailing, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature. The articles include: “Boat Building and Boating”, “Canoeing, Sailing, and Motor Boating”, “Motor Boating for All”, “Popular Mechanics Build a Boat for Pleasure or Profit- Build your own Boat”, and “The Motor Boat Manual – With a Special Section on Outboard Motors and Boats”. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on boat building.