Since its original publication in 1983, McKee’s study of boat types has become the classic reference work in its field. This highly original study of boat types is based on a lifetime’s personal research conducted around the coastline and rivers of England, Scotland and Wales. Although exhaustive in coverage, this book is much more than a descriptive catalogue of British small craft. The first part is an analysis of the factors which determine the shape of a boat, of how these factors operate and why designs vary so greatly. The second part is devoted to the techniques of boatbuilding and includes a survey of distribution patterns, which reveals some fascinating generalisations about the nature of small craft design.

Illustrated throughout with the author’s meticulously detailed line drawings, Working Boats has become a classic reference work, and one which no traditional sail enthusiast will want to be without.

Author: Eric McKee

36 photographs, 80 drawings
256 pages
April 2002
280 x 213mm
Hardback

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