The question of the day, this is awesome, and some really scary shit...
So, I've been reading the new edition of "Buehler's Backyard Boatbuilding" and, while little has changed from the previous edition, I'll go out on a limb and suggest that it deserves a space on your bookshelf right next to the old one.
To be honest, I was a little disappointed at the outset because a few things I consider important like references to materials pricing and suchlike... Seriously, what stuff costs today is of vital importance to anyone building a boat and what stuff cost in 1990 is, at best, confusing. Or that a lot of the ideas Buehler had floated in the first edition like roofing tar composite and other various ways around marine materials were not answered or updated. Really, you'd think in nearly twenty-five years you would have thought that someone might have actually used or at least done some testing to see just how viable some of those ideas were.
That said, a couple of hours' research on your own will tell you that prices on everything you need to build a boat has gone through the roof and, as far as Buehler's various "ideas", you'll just have to do them and see what happens. My take on his various "cunning plans" is that they are all grounded in common sense and should work just fine as my personal experiments with formply have have shown me that they work finestkind.
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| One of the many boats with complete plans in the book |
The best thing about the book, for me at least, is you get a lot of free plans that you can actually build a boat from and the ability to study real complete plan sets is truly helpful. Plus, you can always just build a boat if you want to...
So yeah, well worth the cost of admission.
Listening to Little Feat
So it goes...
