This is not a book for yacht-builders but it is intended for beginners in the art of
boat-building who wish to make something with which they may navigate the waters of ponds
lakes or streams. It begins with the most primitive crafts composed of slabs or logs and works
up to scows house-boats skiffs canoes and simple forms of sailing craft a motor-boat and
there it stops. In writing and collecting this material for boat-builders from his other works
and placing them in one volume the author feels that he is offering a useful book to a large
audience of new recruits to the army of those who believe in the good old American doctrine of:
If you want a thing done do it yourself. (Dan Beard) Reprint of the original edition from
1931.
