Reviews of previous edition: An excellent definitive book... something you must read if you are going to build a woodstrip canoe. -- Canoeist If you want to build a strip-plank canoe or kayak Canoecraft is the book to buy... A very comprehensive boatbuilding book and highly recommended. -- Water Craft A Woodworking Magazine Top 40 Book Now revised and expanded with 32 pages of color and an updated resources section this 70 000-copy international bestseller known as the Bible of canoe building is back bigger and better than ever. Ted Moores is a master builder of woodstrip/epoxy canoes. Over four decades teaching wooden-boat construction he discovered that the same dream motivates all of his students no matter their age: to build something beautiful and functional. Canoecraft is the road map to that dream. Moores offers comprehensive instructions for the first-time builder and for the second-time builder. He adds a variety of canoe plans each presented as a traditional table of offsets. There is also a series of builder s tips and techniques and an entire chapter on carving a paddle the perfect accompaniment to a handcrafted canoe. Whether the goal is to build a general-purpose recreational canoe or an efficient modern tripping canoe or a full-decked fast-cruising canoe with walnut veneer Canoecraft is the ideal guide to making it happen successfully.