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Title: Wooden Boats: In Pursuit of the Perfect Craft at an American Boatyard by Michael Ruhlman ISBN: 0-14-200121-X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A finely crafted book
Comment: "Wooden Boats" reminded me of similar extended narratives by Tracy Kidder (think of "House" or "Soul of a New Machine"). Quite well done, with a strong sense of a story being told.
Ruhlman comes to the topic with no experience in boat construction, or even boating for that matter, but gets to the heart of why some people become obsessed with these projects. (This is a book about wooden boats, but this kind of obsession is certainly not limited to nautical pastimes. Read Rebuilding the Indian for a similar story involving two wheels instead of a hull.)
Although the characters in this book spend an awful lot of time denigrating "plastic" boats, their enthusiasm for boat construction and traditional methods is hard to resist. What these throwback builders are creating are "plank on frame" craft, vessels sculpted out of traditional materials with every part unique and handmade, boats that will (according to their proponents and backed up by history) far outlive their builders.
As a sailor I found this book inspiring. Maybe someday.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wooden Boats
Comment: As a wooden boat enthusiast and long time woodworker, I read Michael Ruhlman's book with enthusiasm. I found it to be a wonderful piece of work that portrays woodworking, and boat building in particular, as dying arts that are not art for arts sake, but an art with an end result in mind. The boatyard in question is the Gannon & Benjamin Marine Railway of Martha's Vineyard. This yard has been doing excellent work for quite some time and has aided in the renaissance of wooden boats that has largely been inspired by WoodenBoat magazine. Mr. Ruhlman does an excellent job of portraying the daily life of a boatyard, as well as a thorough history of G&B. The main thrust of the book however, is the now unconvential perspective that G&B has on their work and the world, which is to build something beautiful that will last for generations, and is ultimately perfectly suited for its task. In the end, I found myself wanting to quit my job and hire on with G&B. I'm still not sure I won't do that.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Book, tremendous story, wonderful read
Comment: Wooden Boats: In Pursuit of the Perfect Craft at an American Boatyard was the best 2001 Christmas present I could have hoped for. It was read it with delight, enthusiasm and enjoyment and then immediately given away to the owner of the riverside wooden boat yard in Maine that shares in caring for my wooden boat. Then the same HARDCOVER copy was ordered for a friend who also owns a wooden boat. He too loved Ruhlman's writing. Then I ordered my self a new copy! Cheers for Ruhlman's outsider curiosity and courage to peer into, get dusty and dirty and come away intoxicated with the pine pitch, paint and varnish and cotton, sisal, hemp, red lead and hand and power tool; the appropriate technology we wooden boat owners love. When (not if) you buy this book, you will, I believe, agree that wooden boats are (mostly) crafted not just built, sailed (power too) not just driven and amazingly and appropriately simple not simplistic.
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Title: Walk on Water: Inside an Elite Pediatric Surgical Unit by Michael Ruhlman ISBN: 0670032018 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection by Michael Ruhlman ISBN: 0141001895 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Making of a Chef : Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America by Michael Ruhlman ISBN: 0805061738 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: How to Build a Wooden Boat by David C. McIntosh, Samuel F. Manning ISBN: 0937822108 Publisher: WoodenBoat Publications Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $36.00 |
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Title: Boys Themselves: A Return to Single-Sex Education by Michael Ruhlman ISBN: 0805055959 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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