Schade Nick. Building strip-planked boats. With complete plans and instructions for a dinghy, a canoe, and a kayak you can build

Camden, ME: International Marine publishing company, 2009. — 288 p. ISBN: 978-0-07-164337-5.Let’s get this clear from the start: it is a waste of time to build your own wooden boat. These days there are far quicker ways to get yourself on the water than going down to a basement shop, fooling around with a bunch of weird tools, making a big mess, and spending time being careful to do it right. You can go out to the local boating store and buy a boat ready to go that will be perfectly serviceable, getting you where you want to go with a lot less fuss and bother.
Instead of wasting your time building a boat you could be at work earning more money, so you can afford the really high-quality glitter on your fiberglass boat, or maybe a hydraulic elevator to lift a plastic barge onto the roof of your car, or something else useful.