Bill & 'Bill' -

That book would be 'Ultralight Boatbuilding' by Tom Hill {International
Marine Publishing}.

For a view from 'the other side of the pond', take a look at 'Clinker
Plywood Boating Manual' by Iain Oughtred. He calls Tom's procedure 'Tom
Hill's STRINGER Method'. While he feels it is '. . . very good for
production of several hulls . . . hardly worth while for a one-off' - {which
is what most of us build.}. He does say that 'Some builders feel it is a
safer, 'idiot-proof' system. And to be fair, he does offer 'an interesting
compromise, what he terms the stringer-fairing system.

For a third view - and the simplest illustrations - there is 'Building
HEIDI' . . . Traditional Boatbuilding Made Easy' from WoodenBoat.

I'd look at all three. I was able to at my library {although I needed to go
through an 'inter-library loan'}. I do this frequently, to decide between
'purchasing' and 'copying pages'.

That's my recommendation . . . and steal IDEAS {NOT books}liberally !!

Regards & Good Luck,
Ron Magen
Backyard Boatshop

"Wm Watt" wrote
Bill wrote:
SNIP
Do any of you know of a good book on Amazon to get that explains how
lapstrake is done?
Bill

The American standard text for small boats used to be one by a guy name of
Hall.
I'll look it up when I get home from the public library if I can remember.
In Eurpoe it's called "clinker".