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Title: Includes Excellent Detail on Plank-Joining Methods
Review: This book discusses how wooden boats and ships are built, and relates them to situations where such vessels are still constructed. For instance, there is a photograph and description of the building of a wooden boat in Bangladesh (p. 40).A unique, and in my opinion exceptionally valuable, aspect of this book is its detailed set of illustrations of shell-first plank-to-plank attachments (p. 60). Numerous techniques are illustrated, including their geographic origins (e. g., Norway, India, etc.). The diagrams show how the planks are abutted against each other, what kind of fasteners are used, how the fasteners actually connect one plank to its neighbor, how the fasteners are fixed in place, methods of stopping leaks at plank-to-plank junctures, etc.
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