Description
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 Thomaston 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