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The Year of the Boat: Beauty, Imperfection, and the Art of Doing It Yourself | 
| Author: Lawrence Cheek
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Category: Book
List Price: $23.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 177148
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.2 x 1
ISBN: 1570615446
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.8223
EAN: 9781570615443
ASIN: 1570615446
Publication Date: April 28, 2008
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Product Description
Lawrence W. Cheek decided that he had to build a boat. Not just any boat, but a beautiful, wooden sailboat. The Year of the Boat is a memoir about what when on in that suburban garage — a roiling process of measuring, cutting, gluing and sanding that was punctuated with supreme satisfaction, utter frustration, and plain bewilderment. From figuring out how to actually read a set of marine blueprints to learning the fine art of applying epoxy to getting the mast to stand up straight, this is a captivating adventure into the wilderness of DIY. The author touches on such topics as the invention of the retractable keel, the esteemed tradition of garage enterprises, the Platonic ideal sailboat, and more. It does not fully explain how to build a boat, but rather explores how one becomes unafraid of building a boat — or undertaking any challenge.
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 Over thinking the whole thing August 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I couldn't agree more with Mr. Anderson's review. I'm new to sailing and of course considering my own boat building project. I did enjoy the local descriptions in this book and meeting in the book several boat builders local to Puget Sound. Unfortunately, I did not enjoy the author's internal debate at every issue. The philisophical rambling and self-loathing about his shop skills gets old very quickly. Contrary to what the cover advertises, there is no humor, especially the self-deprecating variety. I wish I had spent my money on a "How-To" book instead.
 Building Boats and Character August 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Like any "big project," building a boat reveals a lot about who we really are, opposed to who we'd like to think we are. I think many of us understand that intuitively, if not openly.
Fortunately, for most of us, building a boat (or remodeling the kitchen, come to that) need not take on the importance of a quest, as it does for our author. We are told that building a boat is different than remodeling a kitchen, though. It's something larger, more mystical than the usual do-it-yourself project. This is boatbuilding for the Me generation. Everything becomes inflated, exquisitely personal and, at length, perfectly tedious.
 Tells of author Lawrence W. Cheek's struggles as he strives to construct his own sailboat July 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The craft of building sailboats was commonly practiced thousands of years ago; in the modern era, it is a lost art. "The Year of the Boat: Beauty, Imperfection, and the Art of Doing It Yourself" tells of author Lawrence W. Cheek's struggles as he strives to construct his own sailboat in spite of his ineptness at carpentry and even the act of sailing. A charming memoir about one man's efforts to construct a magnificent wooden vessel he could call his own (a plan that should have taken a hundred hours, but ended up taking him an entire year), "The Year of the Boat: Beauty, Imperfection, and the Art of Doing It Yourself" is a memoir that many can relate to. A top pick for community library memoir and nautical collections.
The Year of the Boat May 29, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Not a how-to manual, but a description of how he found himself building a small wooden sailboat as a first time boatbuilder, punctuated with philosophical musings and stories of learning to sail and other related experiences. I identified completely with the author in that I followed the same path of dreaming about the Haven 12 1/2, wondering about Sam Devlin's Nancy's China, and then getting realistic and choosing Devlin's Zephyr. The book is a well-written, personal memoir and should be read by anyone whose ever toyed with the idea of building a wooden boat.
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