Step-by-step instruction with great illustrations

Building Snowshoes

Gil Gilpatrick

Easy step-by-step instructions and plans to build your own strip canoe from scratch! <ul>
<li> Includes full-size plans for 8 field-tested strip canoes, affixed in a pouch at the back of the book </li> <li> Step-by-step instructions for building your canoe, seats, and paddles </li> <li> More than 100 photographs &amp; illustrations to guide you through building a canoe from start to finish </li> <li> Tips &amp; techniques for safety, repair, and maintenance </li> <li> Extensive list of sources for the lumber, tools, and supplies you'll need </li> </ul>
 An expert outdoorsman and canoe builder who has supervised the construction of more than 500 canoes, Gil Gilatrick shares his voice of experience in guiding both novice and accomplished woodworkers in building a canoe with easy step-by-step instruction. Covering everything from safety in the boat to shop repairs, Gil thoroughly explains the whys and shortcuts learned from his experience in the shop and on the water. A Maine guide, he uses his own canoes and tests their performance on the challenging Allagash River every summer. This revised edition of Building a Strip Canoe includes full-sized plans for 8 well-proven canoe designs, most of which are the author's own adaptations. Step-by-step directions for building a canoe from start to finish are accompanied by more than 100 photographs and illustrations.

Building a Strip Canoe, Second Edition, Revised & Expanded: Full-Sized Plans and Instructions for 8 Easy-To-Build, Field-Tested Canoes (Fox Chapel Publishing) Step-by-Step; 100+ Photos & Illustrations

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Fox Chapel Publishing

Traditional snowshoes and the art of making them is alive and well in Gil Gilpatrick's authoritative book on the topic. With this book, you will learn how to make a variety of snowshoes and furniture made in the snowshoe style using updated materials. Skills such as bending and shaping wood, assembling parts and lacing are emphasized.
You will learn how to select the size and style shoe that is right for you and how to make them. You will also find directions for making an end table, rocker, coffee table, footstool, and wood holder in the traditional snowshoe style. Perfect for any rustic retreat. Detailed plans and patterns are included.

Building Wooden Snowshoes & Snowshoe Furniture: Winner of "Legendary Maine Guide" Award (Fox Chapel Publishing)

Allagash, the name itself evokes a sense of awe and adventure that only this wilderness area can convey. In Allagash, Gil Gilpatrick skillfully weaves fact and fiction to whisk you back through time on this legendary waterway.
The facts in this exciting book are based on careful research the fiction is based on facts that are known combined with careful speculation of what could have happened.

Allagash: A Journey Through Time on Maine's Legendary Wilderness Waterway (Fox Chapel Publishing) Winner of the Legendary Maine Guide Award

History

Americas

A book so extensively detailed about canoeing the Allagash River in Maine, by expert outdoorsman Gil Gilpatrick, it's like having him along for the trip. Anyone thinking about taking an Allagash canoe trip needs this guide. With information about what to take, how much time is needed, where to start, what to do with a vehicle, campsites and much, much more, the reader will start their first trip with information that would take years to accumulate on their own. The equipment and food lists in the book are extensive. They evolved over many years and will cover a variety of tripping situations. This book, along with author Gil Gilpatrick's book Allagash, will make you an Allagash expert the first time out.

The Allagash Guide: What You Need to Know to Canoe this Famous Maine Waterway (Fox Chapel Publishing) Winner of the Legendary Maine Guide Award and Endorsed by the Maine Department of Conservation