Wood and Glory: Muskoka's Classic LaunchesA pictorial tribute to hand built recreational boats. Not so very long ago, the best pleasure boats were built, not manufactured. They were hand built to order, of the finest materials: oak, cedar and elm from the Boreal Forest; fir from the Pacific Coast; mahogany from the Honduras; the Philippines and the east coast of Africa. Many of these one of a kind boats were built in the Muskoka Lakes district. Wood and Glory takes readers back to that
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A pictorial tribute to hand-built recreational boats.
Not so very long ago, the best pleasure boats were built, not manufactured. They were hand-built to order, of the finest materials: oak, cedar and elm from the Boreal Forest; fir from the Pacific Coast; mahogany from the Honduras; the Philippines and the east coast of Africa. Many of these one-of-a-kind boats were built in the Muskoka Lakes district.
Wood and Glory takes readers back to that special era of boating that flowered before World War II. These classic center-drive displacement launches (many still in use today) constitute a distinguished part of the boating legacy on North American waters. Vintage-boat owners and boat-show enthusiasts will love the fine craftsmanship in this wonderful collection of photographs and classic boat history.
The book features text and photos on: Classic boats by renowned builders Ditchburn, Duke, Greavette and Minett-Shields The best hand-built boats from the turn of the century until World War II Unique cruisers, runabouts, streamliners, V-bottoms, hard-chines and more.
Wood and Glory is an excursion to a time of mechanical innovation and design elegance., ISBN13: 9781550461770 ISBN10: 155046177X Material Type: hardcover