Spira International Free E-Books, Videos, and Articles

We've put together some valuable information that will assist you in deciding on, starting and succeeding at your boat building venture. If you have any suggestions for additional information that would be useful, please don't hesitate to drop us a note and make a suggestion.

Free Boatbuilding Videos

Building a McKenzie River Drift Boat ..... Different Types of Boats You can Build

How to Build a Boat ..... Predicting the Weather by Reading the Clouds

Free E-Books

Everything about Boatbuilding ..... How to Smoke Fish

Boatbuilding Articles

These are articles that you may view online or optionally download a pdf version, if you'd like to print it out and read at your leisure.

Construction Photo Essays

I've assembled some of the photos builders have sent me while building their boats into photo essays that'll give you a good idea of what building a boat is all about. These are Adobe pdf files.

How-To-Guides

When people write in and ask how a certain aspect of building a boat is done, I've started putting together illustrated How-To-Guides to answer their questions. These easy-to-follow guides should be just the trick to visualize some of the trickier aspects of the craft. These also are in Adobe pdf format.

Commercial Marine Design Articles

Here are some articles I've previously published on various aspects of commercial marine design. They have appeared on my engineering site at Spira Engineering and I thought that may be of some interest to people who found this site as well.