Wooden Boats (eBook)

The Art of Loving and Caring for Wooden Boats

Andreas af Malmborg (Autor)

Ola Husberg (Fotograf)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
210 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-63220-763-0 (ISBN)

Infos

There is something beautiful and nostalgic about wooden boats. These exquisite, polished works of art give us a glimpse into the past, a time when technology wasnt so advanced, a time when everything was crafted by hand. These magnificent vessels deserve our attention and our utmost respect.As beautiful as these boats may be, they do require a great deal of maintenance and care. This book has all the answers. Readers will follow the author on his adventures, sail along as he sails along calm waters in the summer, and watch as he restores each boat with the utmost patience. Boat owners will learn various creative and crafty preservation and boat care tips and tricks and are sure to walk away with plenty of new- found knowledge.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sportsbooks about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team.In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Autor

Andreas af Malborg is a freelance writer, who has written several books and contributed to several boating magazines. He spends his free time relaxing on his old wooden fishing boat in the waters of Roslagen, Sweden. He lives in Sweden.Ola Husberg is an industrial photographer with a fascination with wooden boats. He enjoys sailing, and takes great care of his Scandinavian double-ender, Liv, a mahogany boat built by Tore Larsson. His photographs are well known in various veteran boating circles and his work has been published in boating magazines worldwide. He lives in Sweden.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.6.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Deutschland
• Schlagworte: auto industry • beam • Boating • books on auto industries books on constructors • books on cabins • books on chris smiths • books on cruisers • books on cupboards • books on enthusiasts • books on fiberglass • books on fife • books on fittings • books on gaffs • books on mahoganies • books on mast • books on mollica • books on outboards books on pharmacists • books on owners • books on rails • books on restoration projects • books on sailboats • books on sailings • books on sails • books on sela • books on shipyards • books on sloops • books on stockholms • books on thousand islands • books on varnishes • books on waterlines • books on woods • books on zorn • cabin • chris craft • chris smith • constructor • cruisers • cupboard • Displacement • Enthusiast • fiberglass • Fife • Fittings • gaff • galvanized • joakim norrman • mahogany • Manufacturing • Mast • Mollica • one-man • Outboard • Owners • Pharmacist • Planking • Rail • Renovation • restoration project • Rigging • Sailboats • Sailing • Sails • sela • Shipyard • Sloop • Stockholm • Tacking • Thousand Islands • varnish • Vessels • waterline • Wood • Woodworking • Yacht • Zorn
• ISBN-10: 1-63220-763-X / 163220763X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63220-763-0 / 9781632207630