From My Old Boat Shop

by Weston Farmer

From My Old Boat Shop is about “natural” hull-form boats and the fundamentals of powering boats with steam engines or electric motors. Farmer has you look over the naval architect’s shoulder as he shows you critical physical law distinctions before and after arrival of gasoline engines. Anyone designing or building a steam or electric boat—or any boat of any era or of any material—will end up with a better boat after reading Farmer.

Farmer was the naval architect who edited our grandfathers’ magazines: Modern Mechanix, Motor Boating, Yachting, How to Build 30 Boats, etc, and who wrote hundreds of articles between 1919 and 1981. This new larger format edition contains new material, in addition to more than fifty line drawings (with offsets), ready to build—many from National Fisherman.

This edition is not available via Amazon, but via this website directly from BOAT HOUSE books.

ISBN 0-9641204-2-9, 8 1/2 x 11, 384 pages, Sewn Hard Cover, B & W photos and line drawings (200+). Indexed

$49.95