Ultrasimple Boatbuilding

Subtitled: 17 Plywood Boats Anyone Can Build

In Ultrasimple Boatbuilding, renowned designer Gavin Atkin shows you how to create elegant, seaworthy plywood boats with a minimum of time, experience, and expense.
Using clearly written and illustrated step-by-step instructions, Atkin explains the basics of stitch-and-glue construction, tools, materials, shop safety, and more, as he helps you choose and build the simple boat of your dreams.

Contents:

Part One: How to Build Them

Chapter 1: Three Simple Methods

Chapter 2: Materials and Tools

Chapter 3: Basic Skills

Chapter 4: Building the Hull

Chapter 5: Finishing Your Boat

Chapter 6: Fitting Out For Rowing and Sail

Chapter 7: Models

 

Part Two: The Boats

Minimouse and Micromouse

Lilypad

Mouse and Rowing Mouse

Cruising Mouse

Poorboy

Dogsbody

Jiggity

Aurette

Piragua

Cinderella

Flying Mouse

Eek!

Puddle Duck Racer

Summer Breeze

Doris the Dory

What Shall We Build Next?

 

by Gavin Atkin
224 pp., softcover