Instant Boats by Harold "Dynamite" Payson
Build A Plywood Boat Instantly (Almost)
Want to build a boat in a week or two without struggling all winter (not to mention all summer) with your project? Want to know how to avoid lofting, working from offsets, making molds? Instant Boats does everything but build the boat for you. Harold "Dynamite" Payson has written a book that tells even the rankest amateur how to buy boat plans, purchase the materials, build a boat, and be out sailing ... in an incredibly short time. Dynamite ought to know, for he is the source of plans and instructions for building the fleet of six plywood craft known as Instant Boats, and he has built many of them himself. Designed by Gloucester naval architect Phil Bolger (who contributed the Foreword to the book), these boats are planned specifically for their simplicity and ease of construction. In addition to describing each of the boats (study plans and construction drawings are also included), the author also relates his own background in boatbuilding, explains how and why the Instant Boats were developed, describes the construction shortcuts he's discovered, and argues for and against the various tools and materials on the market today. And to prove his contention that these craft really can be built by a beginner, he devotes a whole chapter to the experiences of a National Fisherman staffer who put together a 12-foot sailing and rowing boat in under 100 hours.Instant Boats is written by a Maine craftsman with common sense and uncommon humor and is a fine initiation to the world of plywood boatbuilding.
152 pages 7" X 10" 48 illustrations
