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Updated 2003/03/23
Providing aspiring amateurs on a limited budget with a step-by-step track-to-run-on by publishing books and booklets that are based on the simple mathematics of grade 8, secondary school: the theorem of Pythagoras and the trigonometrically ratios of sine, cosine, and tangent. The system replaces the archaic, confusing offset tables which are the prime source of many mistakes, and which make the lofting a tedious process, with a few simple calculations on a secondary school pocket calculator.


Books:
THE HARD-CHINED HULL HANDBOOK, 120 pages, US$29.90. A textbook that provides aspiring amateurs and novice professional small-boat, and boat-model builders with step-by-step tracks-to-run-on for the designing, lofting, and construction of flat-, V-, and round-bottom hard-chined hulls for small craft.

COMMON SENSE BOAT AND BOAT MODEL BUILDING FOR CITY DWELLERS, VOLUME ONE, THE CONVENTIONAL WAY, 76 pages, US$19.90. The textbook of the eight-hour course for aspirant amateur boat builders,
VOLUME TWO, THE ALTERNATIVE WAYS, 27 pages. US$11.90.

DUTCH PUNTERS, 31 pages, US$11.90. A description of the Dutch Punters and how to build a copy of this ages-old, sturdy design for leisure purposes.

ANYBODY CAN BUILD THIS 11-FOOT CANOE, 32 pages, US$11.90. A low-budget project for first-time boat-building amateurs. An ideal parent/teenager project.

HARD-CHINED, SMALL-BOAT LOFTING, 24 pages. US$11.90. A step-by-step description for the novice amateur to design, and loft a 13-ft. Skiff without the use of archaic offset tables, higher mathematics, or expensive CAD software.

S&H: add for Canada US$4, for the USA US$5, and for International mail US$9.
Personal cheques, or money orders are accepted

 

Order from Barend Migchelsen, 1515 Hamilton Place, Dorval, Quebec, Canada, H9S 1H3. Personal cheque or money-order accepted. No credit cards.
For more information, you can reach me at [email protected]

In The DORYBOOK, the late John Gardner stated on page 43 that the sheer of a Dory was based on a "natural" curve. By definition this means: "a part of a circle (arc)." He stopped there and did not elaborate further. This remark prompted me to research the designs of these hard chined hulls. The books are the results of these efforts that started in 1975.
Sheers ... and Chines, Barend Migchelsen.

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