How to build a boat, a father, his daughter, and the unsailed sea, Jonathan Gornall
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How to build a boat, a father, his daughter, and the unsailed sea, Jonathan Gornall
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
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maps
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
How to build a boat
Oclc number
1104061949
Responsibility statement
Jonathan Gornall
Sub title
a father, his daughter, and the unsailed sea
Summary
"Once an essential skill, the ability to build a clinker boat, first innovated by the Vikings, can seem incomprehensible today. Yet it was the clinker, with its overlapping planks, that afforded us access to the oceans, and its construction has become a lost art that calls to the do-it-yourselfer in all of us. John Gornall heard the call. A thoroughly unskilled modern man, Gornall set out to build a traditional wooden boat as a gift for his newborn daughter. It was, he recognized, a ridiculously quixotic challenge for a man who knew little about woodworking and even less about boat-building. He wasn't even sure what type of wood he should use, the tools he'd need, or where on earth he'd build the boat. He had much to consider... and even more to learn. But, undaunted, he embarked on a voyage of rediscovery, determined to navigate his way back to a time when we could fashion our future and leave our mark on history using only time-honored skills and the materials at hand. His journey began in East Anglia, on England's rocky eastern coast. If all went according to plan, it would end with a great adventure, as father and daughter cast off together for a voyage of discovery that neither would forget, and both would treasure until the end of their days." --, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Preface -- Dear Phoebe... -- View from a bridge -- A retreat from Suez -- Rudderless -- Red Boat -- A chance encounter -- The league of dead experts -- Say hello to my little friend -- First, take your tree -- First cut -- Ridickerous -- A jigsaw puzzle -- Wonky, but close enough -- Eastward ho! -- Over she goes -- Nailing it -- To hull and back -- Pirates and fairies -- Very, very slowly does it -- Sunny-side up again -- A return to Suez -- A ship at last -- Epilogue