A practical course in wooden boat and ship building, the fundamental principles and practical methods described in detail, especially written for carpenters and other woodworkers who desire to engage in boat or ship building, and as a textbook for schools
A 1918 trade manual and school textbook on wooden boat and ship building by Richard Montgomery Van Gaasbeek, issued in Chicago by F. J. Drake & Company for carpenters and woodworkers moving into yard work. The plates are grainy halftone photographs of hulls on the stocks, ribbed frames seen end-on, timber stacks, launching ways and scaffolded slipways, useful for skeletal curved structure, repeating rib rhythms and high-contrast industrial texture.
