A complete handbook on how to select and finish out a fiberglass hull and deck. A complete step-by-step guide covering every aspect of fiberglass boat completion--woodworking, electrical, plumbing and hardware installation--with hundreds of tips on how to save time and money during construction as well as purchase. With over 100,000 copies in print, From a Bare Hull has become the reference book for home builders as well as many professionals. The Revised Edition contains all new photos and illustrations, much new text, new specs of the best sailboats available for home completion, the newest marine diesels, and the latest list of marine gear suppliers. It also has completely updated design theories, engineering concepts, descriptions of necessary tools and their uses, and lists of materials. A book with the rare combination of elegant style and sound practical help for the boat owner. -- W.I.B. Crealock, Naval Architect A fantastic book. It will save boat buyers and boat builders much money, time and grief. -- Pacific Yachting Magazine Encyclopedic...covering every phase for the experienced and the novice...It will save buyers and builders much money, time, and grief. -- Canadian Yachting The best guide published...Should be read cover to cover for both the information and commentary...Literate, engaging writing. This is the book to read. -- Sail Magazine The most complete book on the subject covering every phase for the experienced and the novice...Worthy of a much older man with a lifetime of boat-building experiences. -- Yachting Magazine How to select and finish out a fiberglass hull and deck: A complete step-by-step guide covering every aspect of fiberglass boatbuilding--woodworking, electrical, plumbing and hardware installation--with hundreds of tips on how to save time and money during construction as well as purchase. With over 100,000 copies in print, From a Bare Hull has become the reference book for homebuilders as well as many professionals. The Revised Edition contains all new photos and illustrations, much new text, new specs of the best sailboats available for home completion, the newest marine diesels, and the latest list of marine gear suppliers. It also has completely updated: design theories, engineering concepts, descriptions of necessary tools and their uses, and full lists of materials. After 13 printings and over 100,000 copies sold, From a Bare Hull has become the ultimate nautical classic and the reference book for both home builders and professionals. Ferenc Mate, author of such nautical best-sellers as Shipshape and The World's Best Sailboats , has written the most lucid, comprehensive-and rarest of all completely entertaining-manual on boat building and finishing Though every page will be useful to anyone finishing off or modifying a sailboat, everyone who owns or is in the market for an already completed stock fiberglass boat will receive a thorough education here. The first three chapters alone--124 pages on how to spot a good, and bad, fiberglass boat--are worth the price of the book. The scope and detail of From a Bare Hull are enormous. For example, the 31 chapters include whole sections on hull insulation, rudder installations and cabin sole overlays, plus twelve page chapters just on hatches and teak decks and a 34 pager on tools. Though the subject matter is technical, with plenty of hands-on, how-to-do-it instructions, Mate presents it all with an engaging informality, as though he were working right at your elbow. With a near obsessive penchant for quality, he provides examples of optimum design and work, made visual through hundreds of excellent photographs and illustrations. If you have ever thought of finishing off a hull or even making a slight change in stock boat, From a Bare Hull is the book to have. 460 drawings and illustrations. FERENC MATE was born in Hungary, escaped at the age of eleven, and has lived in Budapest, Vienna, Vancouver, Laguna Beach, New York, Paris and Rome. He is the author of 15 books translated into 14 languages, including New York Times Notable Book A Vineyard in Tuscany and the Dugger/Nello historical sea adventure fiction series. He lives with his family tending their vines and olives in the hills of Tuscany.