The Real Runabouts IV: Outboard Edition [4]

xii, 573 pp. "Bob shares with you the long and colorful history of the outboard wood motorboat, and he includes extensive material on outboard motors and canvas-covered cedar strip canoes. ...more than 2,000 photos... Ten chapters cover major types of wooden outboard construction, namely, cedar strip, molded plywood, mahogany planking, lapstrake, and plywood. Various firms, both large and small, from past and present, are discussed and reviewed in each chapter."--jacket