The quick and cost-effective way to build the boat of your dreamsFor nearly 30 years, Devlin’s Boatbuilding Manual has been walking backyard boat builders like you through the process of creating a beautiful, seaworthy vessel with your own hands. This popular guide focuses on the stitch-and-glue p…
Is this an entertaining book?
The Practical Mariner’s Book of Knowledge is either the most useful boating book ever designed to entertain or the most entertaining book ever designed to be useful. In its alphabetical organization that juxtaposes wildly disparate entries, you can read about the der…
BE PREPAREDto cook without a kitchen and eat healthy foods for days, weeks, even months! Whether you’re camping, boating, traveling, or staying home, make sure you have enough food in case of an emergency. This book is your survival guide. It’s not just about stocking up on provisions. It’s a…
"It takes thousands of hours of sailing to get the kind of knowledge contained in this book." -- from the Foreword by Bruce Schwab
The ONLY bible for how to sail your boat fast, safe, and alone
Solo sailing is within any sailor's grasp with a little forethought--and this essential guide.
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Was the Titanic doomed because of its name? Can you really "swallow the anchor"?
Jack Tar and the Baboon Watch is a collection of unusual, nautical-based phrases and trivia tidbits for Jack Tars* and landlubbers** alike. Author and mariner
Frank Lanier began to compile these entries while serving i…
How to prepare simple, delicious meals on the trail
If you think eating in the backcountry means either cooking out of your car trunk on a multiburner stove or subsisting on dried fruit and freeze-dried pouch food, think again. In the first case you’re not really in the backcountry, and in the sec…
Higher Education Devlin's Boat Building Manual: How to Build Your Boat the Stitch-and-Glue Way, Second Edition 2nd Edition © 2023 | Published: July 27, 2023US$45.00The quick and cost-effective way to build the boat of your dreamsFor nearly 30 years, Devlin’s Boatbuilding Manual has been walking backyard boat builders like you through the process of creating a beautiful, seaworthy vessel with your own hands. This popular guide focuses on the stitch-and-glue p…
