Boat Modeling with Dynamite Payson:
A Step by Step Guide to Building Models of Small Craft
Harold H. Payson
Well known author/boatbuilder, Dynamite Payson applies his "instant approach" to building table top replicas of small rowing and sailing craft suitable for the mantel, small pond or just dreaming. He starts with a simple lobster boat that anyone can build in an hour and progresses through dories, skiffs, catboats, and peapods ... there's even a Friendship sloop and a sardine carrier. Dynamite's friendly, no nonsense instructions and step by step photographs guide the reader easily through each boat's construction, from stem to stern. Each chapter is graced with a beautiful drawing by artist Doug Alvord. This is the only modeling book written by a real Maine boat builder, and Dynamite Payson will feed the fantasies and hone the skills of armchair sailors of all ages and degrees of competence, whether as a warmup to a full-size boat building project, or as an end in itself.
208 pp. 280 illustrations, 8-1/2" x 11". Paperback.
" Six foot Carpenters and boatbuilders might be a dollar a dozen, but people like you are a blessing to mankind. You are to boat building what Professor Suzuki was for music and violin playing; opening fields of joy which were before considered the exclusive province of the happy few."
Glorieux (Antwerpen, Belgium)
