Provides sufficient detail to model 10 boats to scale or build them full size. Instruction and step-by-step photos for building a traditional boat to scale. With measured drawings for 10 traditional boats, including the Light McKenzie River Boat and the Rogue River Driver.

Whether you are a fly fisherman who enjoys the gentle lapping of water on wood or a boat builder who wants to recreate a piece of history, this book is for you. This fascinating history of the river pioneers who designed, built, and used the early river dories and their successors collects stories, diaries, photographs and plans of the early boats.

Revised edition of Drift Boat Strategies (978-0-87108-887-1) with new in-depth info on dry-fly fishing, nymphing, and streamer fishing from a boat.

The dory has seen duty as a fishing boat, lumberman's batteau, lifeboat, recreational rowing boat, and racing sailboat. The most comprehensive book about dories ever published, this is at once a history of the dory, a practical handbook on dory building, and a compendium of 23 dory designs with full construction details. The author, a longtime contributor to National Fisherman, and the illustrator, Sam Manning, are perhaps the foremost experts on the subject. A steady stream of letters and photographs to the late John Gardner from successful dory builders worldwide has been testimony to the widespread popularity and influence of this book.

A shop manual on building an exceptional rowing dory. Designe by Philip Bolger, this dory is fast, seaworthy and a delight to row. Simple plywood cosntruction.

The epic story of the fastest boat ride in history, on a hand-built dory named the "Emerald Mile," through the heart of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado river.