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There comes a time when every model builder encounters Howard I. Chapelle. I have been building Chesapeake Bay small watercraft and naturally Chapelle emerges as the expert in the field by a large margin.

Chapelle documents the migration of the New Haven sharpie into a Chesapeake and Virginia working boat. He has drawn just about every Mid-Atlantic working boat over the course of centuries. And his practical guidance on boat building comes from a master boat builder.

So now I have 4 Chesapeake Bay boat builds inspired by Chapelle: the Skipjack, the Crabbing skiff "Blue Claw" or " Sweepstakes," the "Flattie" and the "Barnegat Bay Sneakbox." The ASSC is the classic, but I see how much he has to say about all manner of boats in the National Watercraft Collection. I think Chapelle is going to take up space in my brain for a long while.

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There comes a time when every model builder encounters Howard I. Chapelle. I have been building Chesapeake Bay small watercraft and naturally Chapelle emerges as the expert in the field by a large margin.

Chapelle documents the migration of the New Haven sharpie into a Chesapeake and Virginia working boat. He has drawn just about every Mid-Atlantic working boat over the course of centuries. And his practical guidance on boat building comes from a master boat builder.

So now I have 4 Chesapeake Bay boat builds inspired by Chapelle: the Skipjack, the Crabbing skiff "Blue Claw" or " Sweepstakes," the "Flattie" and the "Barnegat Bay Sneakbox." The ASSC is the classic, but I see how much he has to say about all manner of boats in the National Watercraft Collection. I think Chapelle is going to take up space in my brain for a long while.

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So, I received the American Sailing Craft and the American Fishing Schooner books today. So I now have the Howard I. Chappelle "full house:"
1. Boatbuilding
2. National Watercraft Collection
3. American Sailing Craft
4. American Small Sailing Craft
5. The Migrations of An American Boat Type
6. American Fishing Schooners

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Order from Amazon at front door today.
Wow! It is instantly one of the key sources for scratch builders who focus on Charles II Royal Navy vessels.
It is almost, but not enough to seduce me back from the 18thC.
I would buy a second copy to remove the binding or better -see if Osprey is willing to sell the loose pages before binding.

There are lines for several vessels that I could convert to timber patterns after scanning and a lot of time spent accurately scaling the various parts.
 
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It is my second try with amazon.ca to obtained it. They always delayed shipping and I cancelled. Where do you buy it please I really wanted this book.
Thanks, Michel
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I got it thru Amazon.uk. 2 weeks delivery to Australia. ( purchased 3 weeks ago )
 
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Order from Amazon at front door today.
Wow! It is instantly one of the key sources for scratch builders who focus on Charles II Royal Navy vessels.
It is almost, but not enough to seduce me back from the 18thC.
I would buy a second copy to remove the binding or better -see if Osprey is willing to sell the loose pages before binding.

There are lines for several vessels that I could convert to timber patterns after scanning and a lot of time spent accurately scaling the various parts.
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The end of my working career is near and one of the farewell gifts from my colleagues was this wonderful book.

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Just arrived: "L. Francis Herreshoff: The Flowering of Genius, Vol. 2, 1931-1972." This volume covers most of L.F. Herreshoff's adult yacht design career beginning a few years after he opened his own firm in 1926 in Marblehead MA until his death in 1972. I am further down the Herreshoff rabbit hole than ever before and this volume has all of the drawings, tables and scantlings for me to build LFW's "Rozinante" cruising yacht and record-setting racing yacht "Ticonderoga ex. Tioga II" as half-hulls, just the way the Herreshoff clan would have it.1000031739.jpg
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L. Francis Herreshoff book, volume 2. A great book as is volume 1. Of course I’m biased, the author quotes a letter from my father about building one of his designs, a Prudence also called H-23. I still have the drawings.

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L. Francis Herreshoff book, volume 2. A great book as is volume 1. Of course I’m biased, the author quotes a letter from my father about building one of his designs, a Prudence also called H-23. I still have the drawings.

Roger
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Roger - I know you are a connoisseur of all things Herreshoff, so you've sailed these waters many times. Right now, I'm focusing on the pivotal period of 1920-1926, after LFH gets out of the Navy, refuses to go back to the farm, and goes to work for W. Starling Burgess, the famous yacht and airplane designer (and son of Capt. Nat's main rival Edward Burgess). LFH would open his own studio in Marblehead MA in 1926 and Vol. 2 starts in 1931. I'm reading Vol. I online until I can mortgage my house to buy more wood and boat books!

FYI, there is an amazing LFH article in the LFH Reader called "A Sail in the Alerion" originally published in The Rudder Magazine, that brings together LFH, Capt. Nat, Starling Burgess and the 1920 trial matches between Resolute (designed by Capt. Nat) and Vanitie (on which Starling Burgess sailed in her rear guard.) The piece draws a sad picture of LFH's relationship with Capt. Nat but an amazing relationship between LFH and Burgess. Scratch builds of half-hulls of LFH's "Rozinante" and "Ticonderoga ex. Tioga II" are in my near future.
 
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