The Sharpie Book traces the development of the sharpie from its earliest days to the latest plywood-and-epoxy designs; gives comprehensive instructions that can be used to build sharpies of all types and sizes; and includes more than a dozen designs and plans for sharpies from 15 to 40 feet from the likes of Chapelle, Kunhardt, Munroe, Boiger, Clapham, Kirby, and the author. A sharpie is a long, narrow, flat-bottom craft that evolved in the 19th century along the Connecticut shore as an oyster fisherman's boat. An 1880 ...
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The Sharpie Book traces the development of the sharpie from its earliest days to the latest plywood-and-epoxy designs; gives comprehensive instructions that can be used to build sharpies of all types and sizes; and includes more than a dozen designs and plans for sharpies from 15 to 40 feet from the likes of Chapelle, Kunhardt, Munroe, Boiger, Clapham, Kirby, and the author. A sharpie is a long, narrow, flat-bottom craft that evolved in the 19th century along the Connecticut shore as an oyster fisherman's boat. An 1880 report by the U.S. Census Bureau characterized the sharpie as "so good a fishing boat and so fast a yacht that it has been adopted in a great many other localities throughout the United States." To this add three more superlatives--easy, cheap, and fast to build--and you have the keys to the sharpie's almost cultlike popularity among backyard boatbuilders.
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An interesting and informative book, but mostly a catalogue of Parker's Boat plans IMO. Tables of offsetts are given, sail plans are generously described as incomplete.
You could build boats from this book, but You will find drawings of many of these in American Small Sailing Craft by Chappelle with sail plans.
I have decided to build the River Yawl next ( I have two simple small Bolger boats under my belt, a big tortoise and a Gloucester light Dory) BUT! I am going to use the lines, offsets and sail plan from ASCC rather than spring for Parker's plans.
The Parker plan is turncated to provide a boat that can be built with one plywood butt and will avoid any arbitrary regulation on boats over 16', but sparing the price of the plan will buy that extra plywood, my state regulates the boat after you hang a motor on it... So I am going with the eighteen foot version from ASCC.
In conclusion, a good book. Well written, nice read. BUT! get ASCC first.
