Released on = May 28, 2007, 10:17 am

Press Release Author = R. Van Gaasbeek/Dixon-Price Publishing

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Press Release Summary = Dixon-Price Publishing, Kingston, Wash., has announced the
publication of A Practical Course in Wooden Boat and Ship Building by Richard M. Van
Gaasbeek in a handy paperback edition.

Press Release Body = First published in 1918, the course was conceived by Van
Gaasbeek at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in response to the desperate need for
new ships on the eve of the United States\' entry into World War I. Van Gaasbeek
developed the program \"to assist the great army of house carpenters and other
woodworkers in transferring from their usual occupations to the wooden boat and ship
building industries.\" He saw the book \"as a response to the demand caused by
shortage of skilled labor in these industries.\"

The book charts a course of basic rules and techniques that apply to both boat and
ship building \"for whatever the size or type of the vessel, the general principles
of construction remain very much the same in all cases.\"

The opening chapters explain the initial operations required for vessel
construction, large and small, \"as they were performed on the job and explaining
them in a way that the average mechanic can understand.\" Chapters V through VIII
show typical ship construction and give a reader \"an idea of the methods of handling
and fastening heavy timbers.\" The author finishes up with a chapter on basic tools
and a glossary of terms specific to wooden ship building.

This new edition includes all of Van Gaasbeek\'s original photographs, drawings and
tables, including the offset tables for building \"The Standard American Wooden
Steamship,\" a wooden cargo vessel which Van Gaasbeek helped develop through the
Emergency Fleet Corporation which was built for war-time use by the United States
Shipping Board whose photographs of the process are used extensively in the book.

The new paperback edition will be available online in June 2007 from Amazon.com,
Barnes & Noble and other online sellers, or by special order through local
booksellers.


Web Site = http://www.dixonprice.com

Contact Details = Dixon-Price Publishing
P.O. Box 1360
Kingston, WA 98346