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• Small craft design guide (ASSET Inc., 1977), by Joseph G. Koelbel, David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center, and Asset Incorporated (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Canoe, and The Flying Proa: or, Cheap Cruising and Safe Sailing, by W. L. Alden
  • canoe part: illustrated HTML at wcha.org
  • flying proa part: illustrated HTML at thecheappages.com
• A Practical Course in Wooden Boat and Ship Building: The Fundamental Principles and Practical Methods Described in Detail, Especially Written for Carpenters and Other Woodworkers Who Desire to Engage in Boat or Ship Building, and as a Text-Book for Schools (second edition revised; Chicago: F. J. Drake, c1919), by Richard M. Van Gaasbeek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Census of shipbuilding (including boat building) 1916 and 1914. (Govt. Print Off., 1919), by United States Bureau of the Census, Eugene Fuller Hartley, and Everett Spring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outboard motor boats and engines; water thrills and sport for everyone. (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1930), by Bradford Burnham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The outboard motor boat manual. (Motor boat publishing company, inc., 1928), by George A. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical boat building for amateurs. (L. U. Gill, 1881), by Adrian Neison and Dixon Kemp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Small boat building. (The Macmillan company, 1922), by H. W. Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake Bay log canoes and bugeyes. (Cornell Maritime Press, 1963), by M. V. Brewington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Small yachts and boats. (Silvermine Associates, 1935), by William Atkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amateur boat building (The Rudder publishing co., 1941), by William Flower Crosby (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to build 20 boats. (Arco Pub. Co., 1958) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the commission appointed to examine the system of constructing boats by machinery, invented by Nathan Thompson, jr., of New York ... (J. F. Trow, printer, 1859), by United States. Navy Department. Board to examine Mr. Nathen Thompson jr's. invention (page images at HathiTrust)
• Model boat building for boys : a manual on the construction and designing of several types of model sail and electrically propelled crafts (The Bruce publishing company, 1923), by John W. Cavileer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boy's book of model boats (The Century Co., 1920), by Raymond F. Yates (page images at HathiTrust)
• High speed steamers: or, How to build a river boat to run thirty miles an hour. (Van Bethuysen & sons' steam printing house, 1866), by Hugh Bowlby Willson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canvas Canoes : by Parker B. Field. (Forest & Stream, 1899), by Parker B. Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canoe and boat building. A complete manual for amateurs. Containing plain and comprehensive directions for the construction of canoes, rowing and sailing boats and hunting craft. (Forest and stream publishing co., 1885), by William Picard Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of yacht and boat sailing. (H. Cox, 1882), by Dixon Kemp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cheap cruising and safe sailing. (Harper & Brothers, 1878), by W. L. Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Small boat building for the amateur : with sixteen modern small boat designs, rowboats, sailboats, outboards, a 125-class hydroplane and a runabout. (C. Scribner's sons, 1947), by Edwin Monk (page images at HathiTrust)
• The U.S. Army Transportation School apprenticeship program for the trade of hull repairer, ironworker (boatbuilder, steel). (Dept. of Defense, Dept. of the Army, Headquarters, 1976), by United States. Department of the Army and US Army Transportation School (page images at HathiTrust)
• Model Sail and power boats (The Bruce publishing company, 1939), by Claude William Horst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Model boats for boys (The Manual arts Press, 1935), by Claude William Horst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Building and sailing model boats. (McBride, 1954), by Walter A. Musciano (page images at HathiTrust)
• Junior boat builder (Macmillan, 1938), by H. H. Gilmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Directory of exterior fir plywood boat plans. (Tacoma, Wash. : [publisher not identified], [between 1950 and 1959?], 1950), by Douglas Fir Plywood Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boat-Building and Boating, by Daniel Carter Beard (Gutenberg ebook)
• Boys' Book of Model Boats, by Raymond F. Yates (Gutenberg ebook)

• Canoe and Boat Building: A Complete Manual for Amateurs (fourth edition; New York: Forest and Stream Pub. Co., 1889), by William Picard Stephens (multiple formats at archive.org)

• All Adrift: or, The Goldwing Club (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1883), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• All Taut; or, Rigging the boat, by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg ebook)
• Stem to Stern; or, building the boat, by Oliver Optic, illust. by Frank T. Merrill (Gutenberg ebook)

• Der Haus- und Bootbau auf den Marshallinseln (Ralik-Ratak-Inseln) (F. Vieweg und Sohn, 1905), by Augustin Krämer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Industry series, ship and boat building, railroad and miscellaneous transportation equipment (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Social and Economic Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census, 1974., 1974), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ship models of the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries (E. Weyhe, 1926), by August Koester (page images at HathiTrust)
• C. S. Ironclad Virginia, with data and references for a scale model (Mariners' Museum, 1937), by Sumner Bradford Besse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ship model building. (Cornell Maritime Press, 1944), by Eugene Willard Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• British fishing and coastal craft; historical review and descriptive catalogue. (H. M. Stationery off., 1937), by Science Museum (Great Britain) and Geoffrey Swinford Laird Clowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The whale ship book (Rudder Pub. Co., 1927), by Joseph T. Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abstract of results published on a methodical series of resistance experiments on ship models. (H. M. Stationery off., 1934), by George Stephen Baker, A. W. Riddle, and National Physical Laboratory (Great Britain). William Froude laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pioneer steamship Savannah; a study for a scale model. (Smithsonian Institution, 1961), by Howard Irving Chapelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• A record of the transportation exhibits at the World's Columbian exposition of 1893. (Offices of "Engineering";, 1894), by James Dredge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Model sailing boats, their design, building and sailing. (Cassell and company, ltd, 1929), by Edward W. Hobbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the construction, rigging, & handling of model yachts, ships & steamers : with remarks on cruising & racing yachts, and the management of open boats : also lines for various models and a cutter yacht (Norie & Wilson, 1883), by Tyrrel E. Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The built-up ship model (Marine research society, 1933), by Charles G. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ship models, how to build them. (Marine research society, 1925), by Charles G. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Vasca per le esperienze di architettura navale nel R.⁰ Arsenale di Spezia. (Tip. del R. Ufficio idrografico, 1898), by Giuseppe Rota and Italy. Ministero della marina (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ship model building (Cornell Maritime, 1961), by Eugene Willard Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenirs from the Pacific; a loan exhibition of objects returned from the Pacific theatre of World War II by residents of Virginia. Nov. 17 to Dec. 11, 1946. ([Richmond, 1946), by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modelos de navios existentes na Escola naval que pertenceram ao Museu de marinha. Apontamentos para um catalogo (Imprensa nacional, 1896), by Lisbon (Portugal). Escola Naval. Museu de Marinha, José Augusto Celestino Soares, and João Braz de Oliveira (page images at HathiTrust)
• A preliminary study of forces in ship moorings due to wave action (University of California, Institute of Engineering Research, 1955), by K. E. Beebe, Berkeley. Wave Research Laboratory University of California, United States. Bureau of Yards and Docks, and Berkeley. Institute of Engineering Research University of California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ship mooring literature survey (University of California, Institute of Engineering Research, 1955), by Robert L. Wiegel, Berkeley. Wave Research Laboratory University of California, United States. Bureau of Yards and Docks, and Berkeley. Institute of Engineering Research University of California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Model study of ship mooring forces : AFDL-1 (University of California, Institute of Engineering Research, 1956), by Robert L. Wiegel, Berkeley. Wave Research Laboratory University of California, United States. Bureau of Yards and Docks, and Berkeley. Institute of Engineering Research University of California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Model study of ship mooring forces : ARD-12 (University of California, Institute of Engineering Research, 1956), by R. A. Dilley, John B. Williams, Robert L. Wiegel, Berkeley. Wave Research Laboratory 710 20 University of California, United States. Bureau of Yards and Docks, and Berkeley. Institute of Engineering Research University of California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Model study of ship mooring forces : CVE-78 (University of California, Institute of Engineering Research, 1956), by R. A. Dilley, John B. Williams, Robert L. Wiegel, Berkeley. Wave Research Laboratory University of California, United States. Bureau of Yards and Docks, and Berkeley. Institute of Engineering Research University of California (page images at HathiTrust)
• From carrack to clipper; a book of sailing-ship models (Halton & T. Smith, ltd.;, 1927), by Frank Charles Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonderful models; the romance of the world in miniature and a complete encyclopædia of modelcraft, comprising the construction and use of representative and working models in advertising, architecture and building, civil and mechanical engineering, naval architecture, and railway engineering, and the application of electricity to their operation; also the romance of historic models and the modern development of model engineering as an aid to invention, as a recreation, and as an essential element in education. (P. Marshall & co.: New York, Spon and Chamberlain, 1928), by Percival Marshall and Edward W. Hobbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The performance of model ships in restricted channels in relation to the design of a ship canal (David W. Taylor Model Basin, 1948), by R. S. Garthune (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some historic ships and their models in the Francis Russell Hart nautical museum (Massachusetts institute of technology, 1941), by James Robertson Jack and Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fishing schooner "Columbia"; story of the model. Presented to Wetmore Hodges on December 15, 1930, by Horatio Alden, Bruce Barton, Clarence Birdseye ... [and others] (Knickerbocker press, 1931), by General Foods Corporation. Board of directors (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effect of wake on wave resistance of a ship model (Institute of Hydraulic Research, University of Iowa, 1975), by M. Moreno, Louis Landweber, L. Perez-Rajas, and United States. Office of Naval Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Model boats for boys (The Manual arts Press, 1935), by Claude William Horst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ship-models (London : The Studio Limited, 1923., 1923), by E. Keble Chatterton and C. Geoffrey Holme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boats, airplanes, and kites (Peoria, Ill. : The Manual Arts Press, [1950], 1950), by Armand John La Berge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Building and sailing model boats. (McBride, 1954), by Walter A. Musciano (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ship model builder's assistant (Marine research society, 1926), by Charles G. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ship model making ... (The Norman W. Henley Publishing Co., 1926), by E. A. McCann (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to make old-time ship models (Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1929), by Edward W. Hobbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model: United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80, by Howard Irving Chapelle (Gutenberg ebook)
• The compleat modellist shewing the true and exact way of raising the model of any ship or vessel, small or great, either in proportion or out of proportion : also the manner how to find the length of every rope exactly, and tables which give the true bigness of every rope in each vessel, together with the weights of their cables and anchors / performed by Thomas Miller, of Great Yarmouth, seaman, and master in the art of raising the model. (London : Printed for William Fisher ... and Eliz. Hurlock ..., 1676), by Thomas Miller (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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