Building Skin-on-Frame Boats

Building Skin-on-Frame Boats by Morris, Robert. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781551924441.

Bring the romance of boat building into your life. Building Skin-On-FFrame Boats teaches novice and experienced builders alike how they can build a lightweight, beautiful boat by combining a simple and elegant ancient technique with modern tools and materials. Author Robert Morris will guide you through every aspect of building your own skin-on-frame wooden boat. Step-by-step instructions accompanied by hundreds of illustrations and photographs will allow you to build and customize a boat perfectly matched to your tastes and needs. Using the Greenland kayak as a guide to basic skin-on-frame boat building, Robert Morris will also show to adapt the technique to build six other boats, including the Aleutian kayak (baidarka), Netsilingmeot kayak, North Alaska recovery and retrieval kayaks, pram dinghy, Providence River boat, Canadian canoe, and Upper Yukon River canoe. Robert Morris saw his first kayak while spending part of his childhood in the Arctic. He is now the owner of Brewery Creek Small Boat Building Shop in Vancouver, BC. Educated as a fine artist and designer, Robert devotes most his time to researching, building, and teaching skin-on-frame boat building.