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Amateur Boatbuilding & Repair:: The Alpha2 Sailing Dory Builders' Page, Mailing List and Online Forum; The Aluminum Boat and Repair Message Board; AmateurBoatBuilding.com (Online community for all types of amateur built boats from all over the world); The Amateur Yacht Research Society (AYRS); Amphibious Boats: Small Craft With Detachable Wheels (Resources, ideas, and project examples for portable devices to assist small craft in entering and leaving the water); Antonio Bordeu's New Ultralight Boatbuilding Method (Using foam and fiberglass); Articles by Constantin von Wentzel (Resolving problems with a Prout Escale 39' catamaran, battery technology and management); An Australian Amateur Boat Builder Searchable Index; The Backyard Boatbuilding 2 Mailing List (Discussion about George Buehler's boats and those of other designers that also advocate simple boats that are "Hell for Stout"); The Back Yard Yacht Builders Association (For builder/owners of Stevenson Projects' Weekender, Vacationer & Pocket Cruiser); The BadgerOwnerBuilders Mailing List (For those who own, are building or want to build, or are just plain fans of Jay Benford's junk rigged sailing dory Badger and her relatives); Barend's Boat Building (Dedicated to encouraging aspiring amateurs with a limited budget to start building their own small boat and/or boat model); Bateau2.com (Technical support, including a discussion forum, for builders of Jacques Mertens' designs); The B&B Yacht Designs Forum (For builders of the B&B Yacht Designs family of boats; Minipaw/Catspaw dinghiess, Spindrifts, Core Sounds, etc.); Boatbuilder Magazine ("The journal of boat design and construction"); The Boat Builders Forum (At By-The-Sea); Boatbuilding Articles by Dudley Dix (The South African boat designer); The BoatBuilding.Community ("The Internet boatbuilding, design, and repair resource for amateurs and professionals"); The Boatbuilding/Glen-L Mailing List (Discussions about building, maintaining, and repairing Glen-L designs); The Boatbuilding Webring (Connecting boatbuilders and boatbuilding projects); Boat Doctor (Repair manuals and videos, repair discussion forum, ask a tech); Boating and Sailing Videos (Boat repair instructional videos); Boatingforumz (Boat racing, boat building, and general boat discussions); The Boats of Swallows and Amazons; Boatworks Magazine (DIY boat repairs, maintenance and projects); The Boatwright's Shop (Discussing the reproduction and use of 17th through early 19th century watercraft and nautical accoutrements); The Bolger4Sale Mailing List (For sale or trade offers for Bolger boats, fittings, and rigging); Bolger Boats on the Web; Boneyard Boats (Quarterly newsletter whose mission is to help save old boats); Broke Boats (Free marine repair help and tips for your boat, stern drive, and outboard motor); Building a Mast From Epoxy and Glass-Roving (By Jeroen Hoekstra); Building Fine Woodstrip Kayaks (Video from Homegrown Boats); The Caledonia Yawl & Voyage of the Aegre Discussion Forum; The Canadian Boat Builder Mailing List; The Canadian National Concrete Canoe Competition (Hosted by Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario); Canoe and Boatbuilding for Amateurs (Electronic book by W. P. Stephens, first published in 1889)
Canoeing, Sailing & Motor Boating: Practical Boatbuilding and Handling (Online version of the sailing canoe and sailboat portions of Warren H. Miller's 1919 book): Il Cantierino (Italian boatbuilding page); Captain Patrick McCrary's Boatbuilding Tips and Tricks; Carpintería de Ribera en Luanco (An illustrated treatise on traditional wooden boat construction in northern Spain); The Center for Wooden Boats (Seattle); The Cheap Little Sucker (Build a $20 pump for vacuum bagging); Chebacco (Online newsletter for those building this Phil Bolger design); Chuck Merrell's Micro Page; The Cleveland Amateur Boat Building Society (CABBS); ConcreteCanoe.org ("The world's largest and most comprehensive data base on concrete canoeing"); Copper and Alloy Corrosion Protection and Resistance
Craig O'Donnell's Cheap Pages (The Bolger Honor Roll, proas, sailing canoes, Chinese lugsails, plywood boats, odd sails from polytarp, strange boats, bamboo info, more): Dangerous Dave's Reinforced Plastic Composites Page; Daniel Gonneau's Bolger Long Micro Mini-FAQ; David Dean's Boat Shop (Public Broadcasting boatbuilding show); David N. Goodchild's Shop & Building Tips; Design and Construction of Centerboards and Rudders (Essay on hydrodynamic foils); DIY Boat Owner Online (Boat maintenance magazine); DIY Projects for Improving Marine Reliability, Safety, Comfort, etc. (Including the battery combiner FAQ); D. N. Goodchild (Reprints of classic boatbuilding books); Duck Trap Press (Walter J. Simmons' boatbuilding books); Duckworks Magazine (Online magazine "Written for and by those wacky homemade boat builders and designers"); Duckworks Magazine's How-To Index (Links to Web pages on how to do lots of boatbuilding and boating things); Elrow LaRowe's Micro Newsletter Archive; The Epoxy Book (System Three's free how-to guide in PDF format); The European Union (EU) Recreational Craft Directive (PDF); Family BoatBuilding; Ferrocement.net (Dedicated to the free exchange of information about ferrocement); Fishing Boat Construction: 2 Building a Fibreglass Fishing Boat (Free online booklet from the FAO); Fishing Boat Construction: 3 Building a Ferrocement Fishing Boat (Free online booklet from the FAO); The FoldingBoats Mailing List (For builders of folding boats, kayaks, canoes & dinghies); The Folding Kayak Builders Manual (How to build aluminum framed folding kayaks, with free plans); Frank Ellinghaus' Links to Sites About Boatbuilding and Cheap Boatbuilding Techniques; Frank Hagan's Bird's Mouth Tapered Mast Proof of Concept Test; The Glen-L-Builders Mailing List (For builders of boats designed by Glen-L Marine, and other designers); The Glen-L Webletter (An occasional publication for boatbuilders); Good Old Boat (Magazine for owners of older cruising boats); Great Encouragement to Boatwrights (Boatbuilding information sources list); The Great Lakes Boat Builders Mailing List; The Grip Clip^™ Kayak (Green willow shoots, a blue tarp and Grip Clips^™); Guidance on Inspection, Repair, and Maintenance of Wooden Hulls (Paper compiled by the Joint Industry/Coast Guard Wooden Boat Inspection Working Group, August 1995); Guillemot Kayaks (Free information about building wooden kayaks); Hannu's Boatyard (Boatbuilding tips and resources from Hannu Vartiala); Hanoi Private Boat Yards (HAPBY, Stefan Probst's amateur boatbuilding pages; The Haven 12 1/2 Builders' Site, Mailing List and Online Forum; Home Boatbuilding in the British Isles (Boat building projects, designers and boat building suppliers based in the British Isles); Home Built LED Lighting; The Homebuilt Submersibles Ring; The Houseboat Building Mailing List; How to Build a Cajun Skiff or Pirogue; How to Build a Driftboat from Scratch; How to Build a Timber Outrigger Canoe (FAO online pamphlet); How to Make a Paper Canoe (From The Boy Mechanic, 1913); Index for Resources of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (Japan); An Index to Jim Michalak's Newsletters and Plans
An Index of Phil Bolger's Magazine Articles in Woodenboat & MAIB: Instant Boatbuilder (An online archive of all issues of this newsletter from the 1980s); Instant Boats Links; The Instant Boats Mailing List (For builders of Bolger/Payson boats); The Instant Boats Message Board (At Dynamite Payson's site); Jacques Mertens' Stitch 'n' Glue Primer; James Hebert's Maintenance Logs (Notes from some first-hand experiences in the repair and maintenance of boats); The Jim Michalak's Boats Mailing List
Jim Michalak's Online Boat Design and Boatbuilding Newsletter (Twice a month): The John Welsford's Boats Mailing List; Journey Boats (Construction aids and information for amateur and professional boatbuilders on building Phil Bolger's Topaz); Juneau Area Boatbuilders and Homebuilt Boats (Alaska); The Kayak Building Bulletin Board; The Kayak Building Web Ring; Kayak Construction with Aerospace Composites for the Home Workshop; Kelsall Swiftbuild Sandwich Construction (KSS, building boats from flat foam-core composite panels); Ken's Paper Boat Page; The Kotka Woodenboat Center (Finland); Marine Composites (Eric Greene and Associates' FRP boat construction text online); The Marine Do-It-Yourselfer with Bob Pone; Marine Sanitation: Fact vs. Folklore (Online booklet by Peggie Hall); The Marine Surveyors' Home Page (Online articles about boat handling, maintenance, repair and surveying by David Pascoe, marine surveyor); Mast Building for Beginners (Building carbon masts. from the Cherub class page); Messing-About.com (Resources for the home boat builder, renovator and small boat skipper); Messing About in Boats (With Dave Thibodeau's index to almost all issues); The Metal Boat Society & Metal Boat Quarterly ("A non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, design, and building of metal boats"); The Metalworking FAQ/Compendium; The Minimalist Boater (Insights, philosophy, musings and mostly good vibes about getting the most enjoyment for the least money while just generally messing about in and with boats); Moore Marine Consultants' Tech Corner (Articles on boat maintenance and repair); The Mouseboats Mailing List (Discussion about building and using the Mouse and Flying Mouse family of small craft originally designed by Gavin Atkin); The Multihull Boatbuilder Mailing List; The Multihull Boatbuilder Page (A free exchange of building and design information for simple, efficient, economic homebuilt multihulls); Nautic Aspect (Boudewijn Binkhors page dedicated to raising interest in the construction and development of "function over form" boats with a particular character; Bolger boats, fishing boats & small, handy, trailerable sailing or motorboats which are cheap to build); Nepal Boat Building Programme (FAO online pamphlet with canoe and boat plans); Old Boat (A non-commercial site dedicated to the appreciation of interesting old boats, mostly small, non-motorized craft, their design, history and construction); The Oldshoe Mailing List (For builders and owners of the Bolger designed keel daysailer); One Ocean Kayaks (How-to tips, articles about sandwich core principles, epoxy, abrasion fabrics, material resources for builders and hundreds of pictures of kayaks under construction); The Origamiboats Mailing List (A forum for discussion of "folded steel" boat construction); An "Overbuilt" Design for Back Yard Boat-Builders (Using a double layer of cheap sticks held together with polyurethane construction adhesive); The Pembroke Boats History and Restoration Website; The Phil Bolger's Boats Mailing List; Pinmar (Online usage manuals for resins, paints, etc., articles about osmosis and other boat repair subjects in Spanish); The Plywood/Epoxy Boats Advanced Mailing List (Limited membership advanced discussion forum for the building and maintaining of epoxy plywood boats); The Plywood/Epoxy Boats Mailing List (Building and maintenance); The Plywood for Boatbuilding FAQ; Plywood Scarf Joint Bevelling Made Easy (By Brian Dixon); Plywood Scarf Joint Clamping Jig (By Brian Dixon); Principles of Galvanic Corrosion; Professional Boatbuilder Magazine; Punterwerf Wildeboer (Explains the building of traditional Dutch punters); Puuvene (A Finnish online wooden boat magazine); The rec.boats.building Mailing List (Binaries that are appropriate to the Usenet group rec.boats.building); The Recreational Boating Building Industry Home Page (RBBI, "The PFD for boat builders surfing the Net"); RiversWest Small Craft Center (Encouraging the building, recreational use and history of low-impact boats, Portland, Oregon); RottenBoat ("The 'zine for owners and enthusiasts of old wooden boats"); Sailboat Self Steering You can Build (A 22 page booklet on building the HV 101 horizontal self steering vane for sailboats, originally published in 1976); A Self Made Wind Vane (Pendulum servo automatic steering gear); The Selway Fisher Design Builders/Sailors Mailing List; The Shellback's Library Booklets Series (Inexpensive reprints of old boatbuilding and design articles); Ski Boat Help (Message board dedicated to the repair and maintenance of inboard ski boats); The Small Boat Building Mailing List; Small Island (Dedicated to those building a Weekender II); Square Boats (Bolger and Bolgeresque boats); Standards & Properties for Copper and Copper Alloys; Star Distributing's How-To Guides (Brightwork and core restoration for fiberglass decks); The Steambending FAQ (With photos); Steelboat (Forum dealing with metal boat design, building, etc.); Sternwheel Riverboat Harbor (Help for those who are building a sternwheel riverboat); The Stripper's Guide to Canoe-Building (David Hazen's canoe building book); Tales of a Boatbuilder Apprentice (San Francisco and Seattle in the '60s); Tamal Vista Publications (A family run publishing company specializing in books about small wooden boat construction); The Tolman Skiff Mailing List (Exchanging information and tips on building Renn Tolman's Alaskan Skiff); Traditional Kayaks and Other Boats (By Harvey Golden, builder of Inuit and Aleut kayak replicas); The Traditional Small Craft Association (TSCA); The Traditional Small Craft Association Puget Sound Chapter; The Traditional Small Craft Association Sacramento Chapter; Transport Canada's Construction Standards for Small Vessels; The Turkish Amateur Design and Boat Building Portal; The UK Messabout Mailing List (News of messabouts for home boatbuilders in the UK); US Army Field Manual FM 55-509-1 - Introduction to Marine Electricity (PDF); The US Coast Guard Boatbuilder's Handbook (For manufacturers of recreational boats); US Coast Guard Safety Standards for Backyard Boatbuilders (A .PDF file); Vacuum Bag Board Building with Tom Sullivan (Video, also shows the use of an adjustable rocker vacuum table and, construction and use of a hot wire cutter); Watercraft Magazine; Weekender Boatbuilding (For builders and others interested in the boats from Stevenson's Projects); West Coast Paddler (British Columbia kayak building); WEST System Technical Manual & Product Guide (At The Boaters' Network); The Windpilot Guide to Self-Steering Systems; The Wooden Boat Association (Australian organization comprised of groups from throughout the country, open to all owners, builders, restorers and lovers of boats made of wood); WoodenBoatBlog.com (Builder's blogs, links, photos, log books, forums, news feeds); The WoodenBoat Forum; WoodenBoat Magazine; Wooden Boat Net (A New Zealand based online magazine for home boatbuilders); The Wooden Boat Rescue Foundation (Finding homes for "back lot" wooden boats before the chainsaw gets them); Wooden Boat Restoration: How to Guides (Free guide to finding and restoring wooden boats, articles on all aspect of wooden boat restoration); The Wooden Canoe Builders' Guild; The Wooden Powerboats Mailing List (For boaters who love wooden powerboats, both classic and homebuilt); Woodweb (Information resource for the woodworking industry); The Woodworkers' Bulletin Board Wooden Boat Forum; World Cruiser Yacht Co. (Online Westsail repair manual); The World of Ferroboats.com ("Devoted to the promotion of Ferroboats as well as a base for all matters Ferro in the boating world," at Hartley & Brookes)

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