The Mother of All Maritime Links: Page 1 of 47

The Mother of All Maritime Links
John's Nautical Links List
Page 1 of 47

Ships in harbor

Contents

Search

New or Changed Links Hand pointing right

Amateur Boatbuilding & Repair:: The Alpha2 Sailing Dory Builders' Page, Mailing List and Online Forum; The Aluminum Boat and Repair Message Board; AmateurBoatBuilding.com (Online community for all types of amateur built boats from all over the world); The Amateur Yacht Research Society (AYRS); Amphibious Boats: Small Craft With Detachable Wheels (Resources, ideas, and project examples for portable devices to assist small craft in entering and leaving the water); Antonio Bordeu's New Ultralight Boatbuilding Method (Using foam and fiberglass); Articles by Constantin von Wentzel (Resolving problems with a Prout Escale 39' catamaran, battery technology and management); An Australian Amateur Boat Builder Searchable Index; The Backyard Boatbuilding 2 Mailing List (Discussion about George Buehler's boats and those of other designers that also advocate simple boats that are "Hell for Stout"); The Back Yard Yacht Builders Association (For builder/owners of Stevenson Projects' Weekender, Vacationer & Pocket Cruiser); The BadgerOwnerBuilders Mailing List (For those who own, are building or want to build, or are just plain fans of Jay Benford's junk rigged sailing dory Badger and her relatives); Barend's Boat Building (Dedicated to encouraging aspiring amateurs with a limited budget to start building their own small boat and/or boat model); Bateau2.com (Technical support, including a discussion forum, for builders of Jacques Mertens' designs); The B&B Yacht Designs Forum (For builders of the B&B Yacht Designs family of boats; Minipaw/Catspaw dinghiess, Spindrifts, Core Sounds, etc.); Boatbuilder Magazine ("The journal of boat design and construction"); The Boat Builders Forum (At By-The-Sea); Boatbuilding Articles by Dudley Dix (The South African boat designer); The BoatBuilding.Community ("The Internet boatbuilding, design, and repair resource for amateurs and professionals"); The Boatbuilding/Glen-L Mailing List (Discussions about building, maintaining, and repairing Glen-L designs); The Boatbuilding Webring (Connecting boatbuilders and boatbuilding projects); Boat Doctor (Repair manuals and videos, repair discussion forum, ask a tech); Boating and Sailing Videos (Boat repair instructional videos); Boatingforumz (Boat racing, boat building, and general boat discussions); The Boats of Swallows and Amazons; Boatworks Magazine (DIY boat repairs, maintenance and projects); The Boatwright's Shop (Discussing the reproduction and use of 17th through early 19th century watercraft and nautical accoutrements); The Bolger4Sale Mailing List (For sale or trade offers for Bolger boats, fittings, and rigging); Bolger Boats on the Web; Boneyard Boats (Quarterly newsletter whose mission is to help save old boats); Broke Boats (Free marine repair help and tips for your boat, stern drive, and outboard motor); Building a Mast From Epoxy and Glass-Roving (By Jeroen Hoekstra); Building Fine Woodstrip Kayaks (Video from Homegrown Boats); The Caledonia Yawl & Voyage of the Aegre Discussion Forum; The Canadian Boat Builder Mailing List; The Canadian National Concrete Canoe Competition (Hosted by Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario); Canoe and Boatbuilding for Amateurs (Electronic book by W. P. Stephens, first published in 1889); Canoeing, Sailing & Motor Boating: Practical Boatbuilding and Handling (Online version of the sailing canoe and sailboat portions of Warren H. Miller's 1919 book); Il Cantierino (Italian boatbuilding page); Captain Patrick McCrary's Boatbuilding Tips and Tricks; Carpintería de Ribera en Luanco (An illustrated treatise on traditional wooden boat construction in northern Spain); The Center for Wooden Boats (Seattle); The Cheap Little Sucker (Build a $20 pump for vacuum bagging); Chebacco (Online newsletter for those building this Phil Bolger design); Chuck Merrell's Micro Page; The Cleveland Amateur Boat Building Society (CABBS); ConcreteCanoe.org ("The world's largest and most comprehensive data base on concrete canoeing"); Copper and Alloy Corrosion Protection and Resistance; Craig O'Donnell's Cheap Pages (The Bolger Honor Roll, proas, sailing canoes, Chinese lugsails, plywood boats, odd sails from polytarp, strange boats, bamboo info, more); Dangerous Dave's Reinforced Plastic Composites Page; Daniel Gonneau's Bolger Long Micro Mini-FAQ; David Dean's Boat Shop (Public Broadcasting boatbuilding show); David N. Goodchild's Shop & Building Tips; Design and Construction of Centerboards and Rudders (Essay on hydrodynamic foils); DIY Boat Owner Online (Boat maintenance magazine); DIY Projects for Improving Marine Reliability, Safety, Comfort, etc. (Including the battery combiner FAQ); D. N. Goodchild (Reprints of classic boatbuilding books); Duck Trap Press (Walter J. Simmons' boatbuilding books); Duckworks Magazine (Online magazine "Written for and by those wacky homemade boat builders and designers"); Duckworks Magazine's How-To Index (Links to Web pages on how to do lots of boatbuilding and boating things); Elrow LaRowe's Micro Newsletter Archive; The Epoxy Book (System Three's free how-to guide in PDF format); The European Union (EU) Recreational Craft Directive (PDF); Family BoatBuilding; Ferrocement.net (Dedicated to the free exchange of information about ferrocement); Fishing Boat Construction: 2 Building a Fibreglass Fishing Boat (Free online booklet from the FAO); Fishing Boat Construction: 3 Building a Ferrocement Fishing Boat (Free online booklet from the FAO); The FoldingBoats Mailing List (For builders of folding boats, kayaks, canoes & dinghies); The Folding Kayak Builders Manual (How to build aluminum framed folding kayaks, with free plans); Frank Ellinghaus' Links to Sites About Boatbuilding and Cheap Boatbuilding Techniques; Frank Hagan's Bird's Mouth Tapered Mast Proof of Concept Test; The Glen-L-Builders Mailing List (For builders of boats designed by Glen-L Marine, and other designers); The Glen-L Webletter (An occasional publication for boatbuilders); Good Old Boat (Magazine for owners of older cruising boats); Great Encouragement to Boatwrights (Boatbuilding information sources list); The Great Lakes Boat Builders Mailing List; The Grip Clip^™ Kayak (Green willow shoots, a blue tarp and Grip Clips^™); Guidance on Inspection, Repair, and Maintenance of Wooden Hulls (Paper compiled by the Joint Industry/Coast Guard Wooden Boat Inspection Working Group, August 1995); Guillemot Kayaks (Free information about building wooden kayaks)
Hannu's Boatyard (Boatbuilding tips and resources from Hannu Vartiala): Hanoi Private Boat Yards (HAPBY, Stefan Probst's amateur boatbuilding pages; The Haven 12 1/2 Builders' Site, Mailing List and Online Forum; Home Boatbuilding in the British Isles (Boat building projects, designers and boat building suppliers based in the British Isles); Home Built LED Lighting; The Homebuilt Submersibles Ring; The Houseboat Building Mailing List; How to Build a Cajun Skiff or Pirogue; How to Build a Driftboat from Scratch
How to Build a Timber Outrigger Canoe (FAO online pamphlet): How to Make a Paper Canoe (From The Boy Mechanic, 1913); Index for Resources of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (Japan); An Index to Jim Michalak's Newsletters and Plans; An Index of Phil Bolger's Magazine Articles in Woodenboat & MAIB; Instant Boatbuilder (An online archive of all issues of this newsletter from the 1980s); Instant Boats Links; The Instant Boats Mailing List (For builders of Bolger/Payson boats); The Instant Boats Message Board (At Dynamite Payson's site); Jacques Mertens' Stitch 'n' Glue Primer; James Hebert's Maintenance Logs (Notes from some first-hand experiences in the repair and maintenance of boats); The Jim Michalak's Boats Mailing List
Jim Michalak's Online Boat Design and Boatbuilding Newsletter (Twice a month): The John Welsford's Boats Mailing List; Journey Boats (Construction aids and information for amateur and professional boatbuilders on building Phil Bolger's Topaz); Juneau Area Boatbuilders and Homebuilt Boats (Alaska); The Kayak Building Bulletin Board; The Kayak Building Web Ring; Kayak Construction with Aerospace Composites for the Home Workshop; Kelsall Swiftbuild Sandwich Construction (KSS, building boats from flat foam-core composite panels); Ken's Paper Boat Page; The Kotka Woodenboat Center (Finland); Marine Composites (Eric Greene and Associates' FRP boat construction text online); The Marine Do-It-Yourselfer with Bob Pone; Marine Sanitation: Fact vs. Folklore (Online booklet by Peggie Hall); The Marine Surveyors' Home Page (Online articles about boat handling, maintenance, repair and surveying by David Pascoe, marine surveyor); Mast Building for Beginners (Building carbon masts. from the Cherub class page); Messing-About.com (Resources for the home boat builder, renovator and small boat skipper); Messing About in Boats (With Dave Thibodeau's index to almost all issues); The Metal Boat Society & Metal Boat Quarterly ("A non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, design, and building of metal boats"); The Metalworking FAQ/Compendium; The Minimalist Boater (Insights, philosophy, musings and mostly good vibes about getting the most enjoyment for the least money while just generally messing about in and with boats); Moore Marine Consultants' Tech Corner (Articles on boat maintenance and repair); The Mouseboats Mailing List (Discussion about building and using the Mouse and Flying Mouse family of small craft originally designed by Gavin Atkin); The Multihull Boatbuilder Mailing List; The Multihull Boatbuilder Page (A free exchange of building and design information for simple, efficient, economic homebuilt multihulls); Nautic Aspect (Boudewijn Binkhors page dedicated to raising interest in the construction and development of "function over form" boats with a particular character; Bolger boats, fishing boats & small, handy, trailerable sailing or motorboats which are cheap to build)
Nepal Boat Building Programme (FAO online pamphlet with canoe and boat plans): Old Boat (A non-commercial site dedicated to the appreciation of interesting old boats, mostly small, non-motorized craft, their design, history and construction); The Oldshoe Mailing List (For builders and owners of the Bolger designed keel daysailer); One Ocean Kayaks (How-to tips, articles about sandwich core principles, epoxy, abrasion fabrics, material resources for builders and hundreds of pictures of kayaks under construction); The Origamiboats Mailing List (A forum for discussion of "folded steel" boat construction); An "Overbuilt" Design for Back Yard Boat-Builders (Using a double layer of cheap sticks held together with polyurethane construction adhesive); The Pembroke Boats History and Restoration Website; The Phil Bolger's Boats Mailing List; Pinmar (Online usage manuals for resins, paints, etc., articles about osmosis and other boat repair subjects in Spanish); The Plywood/Epoxy Boats Advanced Mailing List (Limited membership advanced discussion forum for the building and maintaining of epoxy plywood boats); The Plywood/Epoxy Boats Mailing List (Building and maintenance); The Plywood for Boatbuilding FAQ; Plywood Scarf Joint Bevelling Made Easy (By Brian Dixon); Plywood Scarf Joint Clamping Jig (By Brian Dixon); Principles of Galvanic Corrosion; Professional Boatbuilder Magazine; Punterwerf Wildeboer (Explains the building of traditional Dutch punters); Puuvene (A Finnish online wooden boat magazine); The rec.boats.building Mailing List (Binaries that are appropriate to the Usenet group rec.boats.building); The Recreational Boating Building Industry Home Page (RBBI, "The PFD for boat builders surfing the Net"); RiversWest Small Craft Center (Encouraging the building, recreational use and history of low-impact boats, Portland, Oregon); RottenBoat ("The 'zine for owners and enthusiasts of old wooden boats"); Sailboat Self Steering You can Build (A 22 page booklet on building the HV 101 horizontal self steering vane for sailboats, originally published in 1976); A Self Made Wind Vane (Pendulum servo automatic steering gear); The Selway Fisher Design Builders/Sailors Mailing List; The Shellback's Library Booklets Series (Inexpensive reprints of old boatbuilding and design articles); Ski Boat Help (Message board dedicated to the repair and maintenance of inboard ski boats); The Small Boat Building Mailing List; Small Island (Dedicated to those building a Weekender II); Square Boats (Bolger and Bolgeresque boats); Standards & Properties for Copper and Copper Alloys; Star Distributing's How-To Guides (Brightwork and core restoration for fiberglass decks); The Steambending FAQ (With photos); Steelboat (Forum dealing with metal boat design, building, etc.); Sternwheel Riverboat Harbor (Help for those who are building a sternwheel riverboat); The Stripper's Guide to Canoe-Building (David Hazen's canoe building book); Tales of a Boatbuilder Apprentice (San Francisco and Seattle in the '60s); Tamal Vista Publications (A family run publishing company specializing in books about small wooden boat construction); The Tolman Skiff Mailing List (Exchanging information and tips on building Renn Tolman's Alaskan Skiff); Traditional Kayaks and Other Boats (By Harvey Golden, builder of Inuit and Aleut kayak replicas); The Traditional Small Craft Association (TSCA); The Traditional Small Craft Association Puget Sound Chapter; The Traditional Small Craft Association Sacramento Chapter; Transport Canada's Construction Standards for Small Vessels; The Turkish Amateur Design and Boat Building Portal; The UK Messabout Mailing List (News of messabouts for home boatbuilders in the UK); US Army Field Manual FM 55-509-1 - Introduction to Marine Electricity (PDF); The US Coast Guard Boatbuilder's Handbook (For manufacturers of recreational boats); US Coast Guard Safety Standards for Backyard Boatbuilders (A .PDF file); Vacuum Bag Board Building with Tom Sullivan (Video, also shows the use of an adjustable rocker vacuum table and, construction and use of a hot wire cutter); Watercraft Magazine; Weekender Boatbuilding (For builders and others interested in the boats from Stevenson's Projects); West Coast Paddler (British Columbia kayak building); WEST System Technical Manual & Product Guide (At The Boaters' Network); The Windpilot Guide to Self-Steering Systems; The Wooden Boat Association (Australian organization comprised of groups from throughout the country, open to all owners, builders, restorers and lovers of boats made of wood); WoodenBoatBlog.com (Builder's blogs, links, photos, log books, forums, news feeds); The WoodenBoat Forum; WoodenBoat Magazine; Wooden Boat Net (A New Zealand based online magazine for home boatbuilders); The Wooden Boat Rescue Foundation (Finding homes for "back lot" wooden boats before the chainsaw gets them); Wooden Boat Restoration: How to Guides (Free guide to finding and restoring wooden boats, articles on all aspect of wooden boat restoration); The Wooden Canoe Builders' Guild; The Wooden Powerboats Mailing List (For boaters who love wooden powerboats, both classic and homebuilt); Woodweb (Information resource for the woodworking industry); The Woodworkers' Bulletin Board Wooden Boat Forum; World Cruiser Yacht Co. (Online Westsail repair manual); The World of Ferroboats.com ("Devoted to the promotion of Ferroboats as well as a base for all matters Ferro in the boating world," at Hartley & Brookes)

Top of This Page