SMALL STEEL CRAFT
Written by Ian Nicolson
Published by Adlard Coles
in 1971
ISBN: 0229986323
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- TRANSPORT
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- BOAT BUILDING
SMALL STEEL CRAFT
Written by Ian Nicolson.
Stock no. 2129133
1978.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Design, construction and maintenance. 206 pages. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0229986323. Bumping to spine. Marks to endpapers and outer page edges; slight musty smell. Wrapper is edge-creased with some chips and nicks; a few marks.
Front cover
Contents
- Background of this book
- The virtues and vices of steel
- Special craft
- Design techniques
- Special scantlings
- Working steel
- Keels, backbones and ballast keels
- Frames, floors and stringers
- Bulkheads and pillars
- Plating and transoms
- Decks and beams
- Deckhouses and cabin tops
- Deck fittings and related matters
- Corrosion, protection, painting, Polyurethane foam
- Machinery and steering
- Tanks, piping and plumbing
- Accomodation
- Boatbuilding business