Common Sense Boat and Boat Model Building for City Dwellers,

Volume One, The Conventional Way:

Good news for all ye would-be, could-be, and should-be boat builders who
don’t know, or are fed up with and no longer want to do a "jig" on
an "offset" table on their "loft" with a "strake" in their "lap" until the
"rabbet" of the "buttocks" is completely "faired in".

Boating is not a pastime for only the affluent. You can triple your fun by building your own, and save a lot of money in the process. Everything is created at least two times: once in the brain, the second time in reality.

Smart boat builders make that three times. They build a model in between.

After having written THE HARD CHINED HULL MANUAL, an acquisition editor of a publishing house told Barend that "anything that goes above the four basic calculations of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing will never become popular reading." Barend had more confidence in the intelligence of the readers and published the book himself.

At the same time he took that advice to heart, rewriting part of THE MANUAL material under the title Common Sense Boat and Boat Model Building for City Dwellers, Volume One, The Conventional Way, ISBN 0-9681514-3-4. The simple, eighth grade mathematics are given in the Appendix.

Common Sense Boat and Boat Model Building... is the only DO-IT-YOURSELF textbook that comes with a Money-Back warranty.

Volume Two, The Alternate Ways will be ready by the fall of 1999.