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
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978-0-07-155966-9 (9780071559669)
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One: Basic Training
1 Opening the Door
2 Ways and Means
3 A Closer Look at Wood
Part Two: Tack and Tape
Introduction
4 Building Gypsy the Easy Way
5 Building Gypsy Full Size
6 Nymph: A 7-Foot 9-Inch Mind Boggler
7 Diablo: Speedster and Workhorse
Part Three: New Boats to Join the Original Fleet
Introduction
8 The Lug-Rigged Windsprint
9 Tortoise--The Ugly Duckling
10 Skimmer--The Poor Man's Whaler
11 The Dynamite Sailboard
12 A Workhorse Called June Bug
13 The Handy 10 1/2-Foot Pointy Skiff
14 The Pedal-Driven Sidewheeler
15 The 23 1/2-Foot Light Schooner
Appendixes:
I Feet, Inches, Eighths
II Audel on Quarter Sawing Lumber
III My Favorite Luff-Tie System
IV Scarfing Plywood
V Learning to Sail
Glossary
Index
