| By :
Steve Martin
So you have the desire to build a wooden boat, and you understand that you need some sort of a plan to go by. Obviously you have the option of creating your own but, especially in the case of the more inexperienced builders, it is more advisable to find one that has already been created and is ready for the taking. Wooden boat plans are as numerous as they are diverse, but is important to get the best possible plan that will suit your time scale, your experience level and your budget. There are a range of places in which you can acquire wooden boat plans, the three which are possibly the most popular are: • The Library • Professional Boat Builders • The World Wide Web Starting with the library, an easily accessible location in which a wealth of knowledge can be found, there will most likely be a good range of wooden boat plans to be found. Despite the fact that the plans you loan out will be free, there are many drawbacks to using a library as your source. To begin with, the plans you loan out are not yours to keep, and you will be faced with the hassle of having to continuously re-new what you have taken out. The fact that you are loaning the plan out also means that you cannot make any personal annotations. Not only that, but a lot of books within libraries are not as modern as what can be found nowadays - meaning that there are potentially much better plans to be found elsewhere. Professional boat builders often look to sell their knowledge to amateur builders in the forms of plans. Although the information within these plans may be incredibly valid and useful, the chances are very high that the amount of money you will be charged for such a plan will be nothing less than extortionate, with the sellers backing up their prices with evidence such as 'the plan is the best you can get'. It is important that you do not fall into this trap; you can find a much cheaper and equally as effective plan somewhere else. This brings us to the final option - the internet. The wealth of knowledge provided by the World Wide Web is surpassing the libraries of the world more and more every second. Not only that, but unlike with the library, the wooden boat plans that you can buy from the internet will be yours to keep and can be annotated and utilised however you may wish. To make it even better still, when you look on the right websites you can find a plan that is just as good as or even better than a plan that has been formulated by a professional boat builder, but sold for potentially more than half the price!
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