<h3>Foreword, by Peter T. Vermilya<h3>Introduction, by John Burke<h3>Skiffs and Schooners<h4>Preface<h4>Experience Starts When You Begin<h4>Building the Spray<h4>Boatbuilding<h4>Materials<h4>Tools<h4>Flat Bottoms<h4>File Bottoms<h4>Lapstrake<h4>Carvel Planking<h4>Engines, Oars, and Sails<h4>The Sprit Rig<h4>Other Rigs, Including the Ketch<h4>The Schooner Rig<h4>Water, Stoves, Anchors, Fuel, Centerboards, and Cabins<h4>Paints, Oils, and Goo<h4>Sailors, Old and Young<h3>Boats, Oars, and Rowing<h4>Dedication<h4>Preface<h4>Acknowledgments<h4>The Pleasures of Rowing<h4>Rowing Craft<h4>Oars and Oarmaking<h4>Oarlocks and Other Rowing Gear<h4>Notes on Rowing<h4>Double-Paddle Canoes<h4>A Cruise in a Pulling Boat<h3>Articles <h4>Old Ways Work <h4>Boat-Building Used to Be... <h4>On Rowing and Boats <h4>Sand Dolly <h4>Wheelbarrow Boat <h4>What Makes Classics Real <h4>Fish Oil, Sour Milk, and Stale Beer <h4>The Mallets Cried, Hollered, Bellowed, and Chirped <h4>Natural Knees <h4>Quick and Dirty Boats <h4>Tarred Rigging and Stropped Blocks <h3>Design Commentaries <h4>Race Point Surfboat Coskata<h4>Wherry Yawl for a Schooner<h4>Yawlboat for Integrity<h4>Two Steam Launches<h4>Fast Outboard Launch<h4>Concordia Towboat Gracie Iii<h4>Baltimore Clipper Schooner Lizard King<h3>Boat Plans by R.D. Culler <h3>Index