How to Build the Gloucester Light Dory

Author: Harold H. Payson
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
ISBN: 9780937822043
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
A shop manual on building an exceptional rowing dory. Designe by Philip Bolger, this dory is fast, seaworthy and a delight to row. Simple plywood cosntruction.

Instant Boats

Author: Harold Payson
Publisher: Wooden Boat Publications
ISBN: 9781934982082
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
How to build simple, well-designed plywood boats without a complicated building jig, featuring complete scaled-down plans for five easily-built boats designed by Phil Bolger. From a small punt to a 31' daysailer with a schooner rig. The step-by-step example being a 12' double-ended sailing skiff.

The Dory Book

Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493068326
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
The dory has seen duty as a fishing boat, lumberman's batteau, lifeboat, recreational rowing boat, and racing sailboat. The most comprehensive book about dories ever published, this is at once a history of the dory, a practical handbook on dory building, and a compendium of 23 dory designs with full construction details. The author, a longtime contributor to National Fisherman, and the illustrator, Sam Manning, are perhaps the foremost experts on the subject. A steady stream of letters and photographs to the late John Gardner from successful dory builders worldwide has been testimony to the widespread popularity and influence of this book.

The Folding Schooner, and Other Adventures in Boat Design

Author: Philip C. Bolger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description

Kayakcraft

Author: Ted Moores
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
ISBN: 9780937822562
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
KayakCraft is the culmination of years of teaching, boatbuilding, and writing experience. Book jacket.

Keeping the Cutting Edge

Author: Harold H. Payson
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
ISBN: 9780937822029
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Harold H. "Dynamite" Payson is a professional boatbuilder who specializes in light plywood construction, though in the past he build traditional plank-on-frame craft. Most of his boats-among them the famed Gloucester Light Dory and the Instant Boat series-are from the board of Philip C. Bolger. Many of the prototypes of Bolger's small boats have been built by Payson as part of their continuing association. Dynamite is a retired lobster fisherman, a saw sharpener, and the proprietor of H.H.Payson & Co., which offers boatbuilding plans for sale to the average boatbuilder. He is the author of Instant Boats, How to Build the Gloucester Light Dory, Go Build Your Own Boat!, Build the New Instant Boats, and a number of magazine articles. He lives and works in South Thomaston, Maine.

Build the New Instant Boats

Author: Harold H. Payson
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 9780071559669
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
When Harold Payson - known to associates, friends, and his wife as Dynamite - began supplementing his boatbuilding work by selling boat plans, he got feedback from a number of customers who found the boats too difficult to build. Selling plans for boats that never got built went against Dynamite's Dow

Tolman Alaskan Skiffs

Author: Renn Tolman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966871111
Category : Boatbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
Plans and instructions for building all three of the world-famous Tolman skiffs. Here are boats you can build with common tools, common skill, and common materials.

Go Build Your Own Boat!: Overview of Traditionally Planked Boats and Plywood Boatbuilding

Author: Harold H. Payson
Publisher: Wooden Boat Publications
ISBN: 9781934982129
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
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.

Building the Six-Hour Canoe

Author: Richard Bütz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780961039677
Category : Boatbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A guide to building a canoe that contains scale plans, specifications, a tool list, step-by-step instructions, and even a helpful explanation of how to paddle the canoe. All the building operations are clearly illustrated with photos and sketches. The canoe is constructed from a single 4'x16' (or two 4' x 8' sheets) sheet of marine plywood and a few pieces of dimensional lumber and, with epoxy glued seams, is watertight from the moment it hits the water. When completed, the canoe is 15'3" in length with a 31½" beam. Inexpensive to build using ordinary tools and materials, the canoe gives everybody access to boatbuilding and a boat.