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INSTANT BOATS

are designed by Marine Architect Phil Bolger so that you can build and launch a smart and handsome sailer in 40 working hours or less!

Can you saw a penciled line... apply glue ... drive screws? Could you build a box? If so, you can build your own INSTANT BOAT. But it won't be a box. The genius of Phil Bolger guarantees that your completed craft will boast a pleasing sheer and graceful flare. Both looks and performance are designed right into these highly efficient rowing and sailing craft.

Why is it so easy? For one thing, all the complex drudgery of lofting lines and building a jig have been designed right out of every INSTANT BOAT. The lofting has been done for you. Nor will you have to build two boats to get one, which is just about what making a jig turns boat building into.

You start right in cutting readily available plywood sheets to pre-computed patterns, and before you know it you will be fastening them together ... all your basic assembly virtually complete. If you are just "average handy" with tools, you can beat the 40-hour schedule mentioned above . . . and be on the water in five working days or less.

Which of the INSTANT BOATS will be yours?

First, write or call for the catalogue. Look over the photos. Each has been built and tested by professional builder Harold H. Payson. In fact, Payson and Bolger teamed up from the start in order to ensure sound craftsmanship along with ease of construction. Not one INSTANT BOAT plan has been released until both these perfectionists declared themselves satisfied. These men have put their reputations and personal pride right on the line.

Late in the season? Suppose you start on the first available weekend. Four or five days later you can start putting paint on your new craft .... a day or two more and you'll be getting compliments from admiring pierside critics.

Take your time if you want to . . . but start NOW. Your INSTANT BOAT will grow so fast under your hands that your progress will astound you. Just as soon as you write or telephone, your INSTANT BOAT is really on the way. The special satisfaction of commanding your own handywork on the water, and being proud of it, will be yours when you wish.

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