Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980901084112.007e6100@mail.itis.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 08:41:12 -0500
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
From: Dan Miller <5lakes@itis.com>
Subject: Re: [baidarka] 20 BOAT PLANS magazine index
In-Reply-To: <35EB5445.7772@totalsports.net>
At 09:56 PM 8/31/98 -0400, Charles Hall wrote:
>I have put up a first draft of the index to Fawcett's TWENTY BOAT
>PLANS(?) publication. I'm still waiting on some clarification from Bob
>Hicks (MESSING ABOUT IN BOATS) who sent me the index, but I believe he
>will make copies if asked.
>
>The index is here:
>
> http://robroy.totalsports.net/boats/20boats.html
I have issue 15 (No. 362 from 1958). I could scan in the Seal
(16 ft Eskimo kayak) if someone else wanted to volunteer to make
it workable. It still has 34 years to go before it is public-domain,
though. I could scan and send anyone additional articles from this
volume if interested.
>
>And if anyone knows where I can get copies of these old books
>(magazines?) for myself, please let me know.
Used book stores and dealers, check Interloc occasionally. Antique
shops and malls - you'll often find big piles of Popular Mechanics
and Popular Science. It's worth flipping through the regular issues
if you have time, too - that's how I found the articles about the
South Bay Scooter I want to build. They will turn up on Ebay too,
though you'll probably have to pay a premium.
I have a couple other ones, if you wanted to add them to your index -
Boats Anyone Can Build - Popular Science 1947 includes 16' "Canoe- Kayak-Type,
for Paddle or Sail", and a skin on frame duckboat.
Popular Mechanics Boat Book (1924) includes Seagull (skin on frame
sailing canoe), a log canoe, paper canoe and concrete canoe.
Cheers,
Dan
--- Daniel Miller - 5lakes@itis.com Five Lakes Wooden Boat Center http://www.paddlin.com/fivelakes/canoe.htm "So many boats, so little time..."