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BUILD
I NEW
INSTANTBOATS
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HAROLD "DYNAMITE" PAYSON
WI
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INTERNATIONAL MARINE PUBLISHING COMPANY
Camden, Maine
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1984
by
International Marine Publishing
Company
Third
printing,
1986
T
ypeset
by
The
Key
Word, Inc., Belchertown, Massachu
setts
Printed
and bound by
Th
e
Alpine
Press,
Stoughton,
Massachusetts
All rights
reserved
.
Except for
use
in a review,
no
part of this book may
be
repro·
duced or utilized in any
form
or by
any means,
electronic or
mechanical,
including
photocopying, recording, or by any information
storage
and
retrieval
system,
without permission from the publisher.
Published by International Marine Publishing Company
21
Elm Street.
Camden,
Maine
04843
(207) 236-4342
Ubrary of Congress Cataloging
in Publication Dala
Payson. Harold
H.
Build the new instant boats.
Includes
index.
I.
Boat-building.
I.
Title.
VM32l.P295
1984
623.8'223
ISBN 0-87742·187-0
84·81554
Contents
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
Xl
PART ONE: BASIC TRAINING
1 Opening The Door
3
2
Ways And Means
8
3 A Closer Look At Wood
1
19
PARTTWO:
TACK AND
TAPE
4
5
6
7
27
Introduction
29
Building Gypsy The Easy Way
31
Building Gypsy Full Size
35
Nymph: A 7-Foot 9-Inch Mind Boggier
Diablo: Speedster And Workhorse
68
61
PART THREE: NEW BOATS TO JOIN
THE ORIGINAL FLEET
77
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
Introduction
79
The Lug-rigged Windsprint
81
Tortoise-The Ugly Duckling
87
Ski=er-The Poor Man's Whaler
93
The Dynamite Sailboard
98
104
A Workhorse Called June Bug
110
The Handy 1Of1-Foot Pointy Skiff
117
The Pedal-Driven Sidewheeler
124
The 23
f1
-Foot Light Schooner
APPENDIXES:
I
II
III
IV
V
Feet, Inches, Eighths
131
Audel on Quarter Sawing Lumber 131
My Favorite Luff-Tie System
132
Scarfing Plywood
133
Learning to Sail
134
Glossary
Index
139
144
Preface
"Yes,
you
can,"
I tell anyone who asks me the question,
"Do you
think I
can
build
a
boat~"
Anyone
with
a
positive attitude and a
smattering
of intelligence mixed
with a little common
sense
can build one of these boats.
Sure,
it
will
take a few bucks, but not many. Phil Bolger
designs the Instant Boats not only for ease of building
but for
economy
as well; each boat is built from 2 x 45
and 4-foot
by
8-foot
sheets
of plywood readily found at
any respectable building-supplies
store.
One-stop
shopping
is all
you
need for most any boat in this fleet,
and
that
ain't
bad in these days of complexity.
Since
the
early
19705 when the original fleet of
six
Instant Boats was
conceived,
many more have been
added
including
three
"Tack and
Tape" boats that are
much
more
shapely
but otherwise
very
definitely in the
Instant
Boat
mold. Those boats-Gypsy, Nymph, and
Diablo-are in
this
book,
along with eight other
brothers
and sisters
for the original Instant Boat fleet.
And there will be more.
If
it's
Bolger's, it's new,
different, and it works. Depend on it.
Before
we begin building, let me answer the two
Questions that have been
asked
most frequently in my
15 years
of selling boat
plans. The first is,
"I
can't get the
wood
or
fastenings
called
for by the plans. Can I
substitute?"
Yes,
you can.
Instant Boats are designed to
accommodate
a
wide range of choices in materials and
building techniques. Remember your common
sense
and let it be your
guide.
The
second
goes like thiS:
"I'd
like to make
some
design changes-say, widen the
stem
and
give
her
sail
a different
size
and shape. What
do you
say?"
Don't do it unless you're willing to accept
the results for better or worse. When you plunk down
your money for a
set
of plans, you can expect your
choice of boats to perform as advertised, but any
changes
you
make in hull or rig design will most
assuredlv affect your boat's performance-possibly to
your
liking, but possibly not. Perhaps my argument
is
best
expressed
by the Alcoholic's Prayer, which
speaks
of things that
can
be changed, the things that
cannot,
and the need for wisdom to know the difference.
The last appendix is an introduction
to
sailing
a
small boat,
because I know from correspondence that
many
of you
who build the Instant Boats have never
been
sailing
before. I remember clearly my own first
awkward
attempts,
so
I'm
still
qualified
to
tell
you
about it.
Let's build
a
boat
H.H.
"Dynamite"
Payson
September 1984
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