How to build a boat : a father, his daughter and the unsailed sea

Gornall, Jonathan2018

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Jonathan Gornall celebrates the art and craft of boat-building, and the simple pleasures of working with your hands. This title is the story of a thoroughly unskilled modern man who, inspired by his love of the sea and what it has taught him about life, sets out to build a traditional wooden boat as a gift for his newborn daughter. It is, he recognises, a ridiculously quixotic challenge. He isn't even sure what type of boat he should build, what wood he should use, the tools he will need or, come to that, where on earth he will build it. He has much to consider, and even more to learn.