Go Build Your Own Boat! (slightly damaged)

Divided into three parts: Building to your own design; The pleasures and perils of plywood; A miscellany of simple solutions.

This book is packed with how-to and know-how, as well as photos and drawings. Originally published in 1987, the book still has a place near and dear to many followers of the late Dynamite Payson, who still inspires folks to just get to the process of building a boat they can actually use.

Part One: Building to Your Own Design

Learning boats

Go Build Your Own Boat!

Early Catastrophes

Feeling Your Way

Down the scale

Subtracting the Third Dimension

Setting up the backbone

Molds, transom and transom knee

Ribbands, rabbets, and frames

Planking her up

Striking the waterline

Part Two: Pleasures and Perils of Plywood

Why I took up with Plywood

Dangers of the dory design

Building the Gloucester Light Dory

The Thomaston Galley: triple treat

Lofting the Thomaston Galley

The Thomastan Galley: planking up

The Thomaston Galley: the sailing rig

Part Three: The miscellany of simple solutions

Taking her off, in fiberglass

Tools and their maintenance

Paints and finishes

Sticky subject

Spars

Scarphing plywood

A suit of glass armor

Start small

A boat owner's guide to a good night's sleep

Signing off

Glossary of Terms, and Indexby Harold "Dynamite" Payson
114 pp., softcover

 

Take advantage of the lower prices of these slightly damaged books. These books have been returned, are slightly bunged or scuffed. None of these books are severely damaged, ie; ripped pages, water stained, and the like. They are perfectly readable, useable books.

Please note: slightly damaged books are sold as non-returnable.