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Pigeons and Gudgeons
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Pigeons and Gudgeons spans different styles of boatbuilding and related trades to provide you with explanations of the often mysterious terminology used in boatbuilding.

Boatbuilding, like this book, draws on the skills of machinists, patternmakers, sailmakers, sparmakers, caulkers, finishers, riggers, and others. It's dictionary and glossary because it contains elements of both. Actually, it's more of a modest boatbuilder's encyclopedia, with concise explanations and plenty of photos and drawings.

Boatbuilding becomes instantly more understandable when you understand the language.
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Spanish Windlass in use..two of them actually, being used to maintain the beam of a lapstrake canoe during timbering out.
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Prior to the publication of this book, the chances of finding a concise answer to a marine or shop related question was largely a hit or miss proposition. Even for those of us with a rather respectable boatbuilding library and files of clippings, the trick is still to put your finger on the information when it is needed. Here is a resource that you can keep alongside your favorite chair or in your shop that you can access any time.
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Sprit/ketch rig on a Newfoundland Trap Skiff
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A good deal of what is included between these covers has never appeared in print before, having derived from the adages and rules of thumb used daily in boatshops (and virtually unknown elsewhere). That's what makes it such an essential resource.


.Silicon bronze oarlock horns and sockets.
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The style is conversational, the information invaluable, and having your own copy will make your life considerably less taxing. There are few things as frustrating as needing an explanation and not being able to find it. Pigeons and Gudgeons was written to help you do just that.
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Old and new are covered. Do you know what scantlings are?...how about gin poles?...or deadrise?...or ship splices?...or perhaps old Maine terms like Friendship Sloop or gone democratic? Do you know what a bevel board or back and forth lacing or a balanced rudder looks like? You are apt to encounter all of those things in your reading.

When you're in your shop, could you use a chart that tells you the Suggested RPM Range of Drilling Mild Steel?...or a Bolt Thread Chart?...or a Bandsaw Blade Chart that shows the recommended blades and speeds for cutting boatbuilding woods as well as metals?

They are all in Pigeons and Gudgeons.
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Pigeons and Gudgeons

245 pages/135 photos and drawings.
$29.95/copy
(shipping weight 3 lbs.)

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Caulking Tools with a folding 2' rule for scale
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