Ships & Boats @ Pequot library 

[Arranged by category from most recently published to earliest published]

Boat & Ship Building:

Joel White:  Boatbuilder, Designer, Sailor.  Bill Mayher and Maynard Bray, 2002.  Q 623.83 MAYHER

Wooden Boats.  Michael Ruhlman, 2001.     623.8 RUHLMAN

A Unit of Water, A Unit of Time:  Joel White’s Last Boat.  Douglas Whynott, 1999.

         623.8 WHYNOT

Wooden Ship:  the Art, History, and Revival of Wooden Boatbuilding.   Peter H. Spectre and David

          Larkin, 1991.   Q 623.8 SPECTRE

Clinker Boatbuilding.  John Leather, 1987.     623.8 LEAT

The Wood & Canvas Canoe:  a Complete Guide to Its History, Construction, Restoration, and Maintenance.  Jerry Stelmok and Rollin Thurlow, 1987.     Q 623.82 STELMOK

The World’s Best Sailboats:  a Survey.  Ferenc Maté, 1986.     Q 797 MATE

Sam Crocker’s Boats:  a Design Catalog.  S. Sturgis Crocker, 1985.    Q 623.8 CROCKER

Building Classic Small Craft.  John Gardner, 1977-1984.     Q 623.82 GARDNER

Workboats.  Kenneth D. Troup, ed., 1982.     387.23 TROUP

Portsmouth’s Heyday in Shipbuilding.  Gertrude Pickett, 1979.     974.27 PICKETT

Good Boats.  Roger C. Taylor, 1977.     797 TA OV

Sensible Cruising Designs.  L. Francis Herreshoff, 1973.     699 HERRESHOFF

Some Famous Sailing Ships and their Builder,  Donald McKay:  a Study of the American Sailing Packet and Clipper Eras, with Biographical Sketches of America’s Foremost Designer and Masterbuilder of Ships, and a Comprehensive History of his Many Famous Ships.  Richard C.

          McKay, 1969.     699 MCKAY

The Way of a Ship:  Being Some Account of the Ultimate Development of the Ocean-going Square-rigged Sailing Vessel, and the Manner of her Handling, her Voyage-making, her Personnel, her Economics, her Performance, and her End.  Alan John Villiers, 1953.    

          623.822 VILLIERS 

American Small Sailing Craft:  their Design, Development, and Construction. Howard Irving

          Chapelle, 1951.     632.82 CHAPELLE

Of Yachts and Men:  an Account of Many Happy Years of Building, Designing and Living with Small Boats:  with Plans and Illustrations of Some of These Boats, and the Circumstances Under Which They were Conceived…  William Atkin, 1949.    797 ATKIN

Boat Building in Your Own Back Yard.  S. S. Rable, 1947.     Q 699 RABL

Boatbuilding:  a Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction.  Howard I. Chapelle, 1941.

          699 CHAPELLE

Small Boat Building for the Amateur, with Sixteen Modern Small Boat Designs. Edwin Monk,

          1934.    Q 699 MONK

Sailing Ships:  the Story of Their Development from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. 

          E. Keble Chatterton, 1909.     797.1 CHATTERTON