The first complete how-to guide for building the latest generation of quick and easy boats
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
Introduction: The Virtues of Small and Simple Boats
Part 1 How We'll Build Them
1. Three Simple Ways to Build Ultrasimple Boats
The Simplified Chine Log Method
Stitch-and-Glue
Polyurethane Stitch and Glue
Epoxy Stitch and Glue
Your Choice
2. Materials and Tools
Plywood
Buying Plywood
Lumber
Buying Lumber
Adhesives
Epoxy
Polyurethane Glues
Paint and Varnish
Tools
3. Basic Skills
Working with Lumber
Marking
Cutting
Working with Saws
Joining Lengths of Lumber
Working with Plywood panels
Marking out using coordinates
Cutting the panels
Making Butt Joints
Using Fasteners
Pre-drilling holes
Working with hand drills
Using hammers and driving nails
Using screwdrivers and driving screws
(sidebar: Working with Chisels)
Working with Glues
Using polyurethane glue
(sidebar: PL Hints from Bryant Owen)
Using Epoxy
4. Building the Hull
Building with the Simplified Chine Log Method
Cleats for bulkheads and frames
Cleats for the transoms
Assembling the Bulkheads, Transoms, and Sides
Adding Chine logs
Building Stitch-and-Glue Style
Bulkheads and Frames
Initial Assembly
Taping versus "Stitching"
Making Fillets with polyurethane
Making Fillets with epoxy
Covering the hull
Adding a Skeg
Inwales, gunwales, breasthooks and quarter knees
(sidebar: Home Made Clamps)
5. Finishing Your Boat
Painting
Painting with water-based paint
Painting with oil-based paint
Varnishing
6. Fitting out and Rigging
Fittings
Paddling and rowing gear
(sidebar: A Rowing Rant)
Sailing Gear
Daggerboards, leeboards, and rudders
Spars
Sails
Rigging
(sidebar: Knots)
Preventing rot
7. Model making
Part 2 Let's Build Some Boats
8. Minimouse and Micromouse: two tiny, flat-bottom double-paddle prams
Hull
Decks
Seats
Les Brown's Micromouse
9. Lilypad: a stone-simple punt
10. Mouse and Rowing Mouse: a V-bottomed messabout pram for double-paddle or oars
11. Cruising Mouse: a two-person rowing or paddling pram with carrying capacity
12. PoorBoy: a small outboard skiff
13. Dogsbody: a larger outboard boat
14. Jiggity: an "ultrasimplified" Auray punt
15. Aurette: a small sailing Auray punt
16. Piragua: a pirogue
17. Cinderella: a double-paddle canoe with a "roundish" bottom
18. Flying Mouse: a child's sailing pram
String Sailing
19. Eek!: a larger, sportier sailing pram for more experienced kids and small adults
20. Puddle Duck Racer: the world's simplest racing class?
21. Summer Breeze: a versatile rowing/sailing skiff
Using the Simplified Chine Log Method
Stem and transom
Frame
Assembling the Sides
Installing the Bottom
Using stitch and glue
Finishing the Hull
Rowing Accoutrements
Sailing Rig
22. Doris the Dory: a rowing and sailing expedition boat
Part 3: What Shall We Build Next?
23. A gallery of appealing designs
Phil Bolger
Teal
His 'n' Hers Schooners
Micro
Jim Michalak
AF3
AF4
Ladybug
Harmonica
Murray Isles
Swallowdale 15
Swan Bay
Pepper Gal
John Welsford
Houdini
Tread Lightly
Trover
Jacques Mertens-Goosens
CK 17
Otter 16
Indian River Skiff
Conrad Natzio
Sandpiper
Oystercatcher
Gavin Atkin is known around the world for his
minimalist boat designs. His award-winning creations,
including the celebrated Mouse, have been built by countless
boat enthusiasts.
Gavin Atkin is known around the world for his
minimalist boat designs. His award-winning creations,
including the celebrated Mouse, have been built by countless
boat enthusiasts.
Imprint: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Distributor: The McGraw-Hill Companies
Publication Date: 10-19-2007
Pages: 192
Measurements: 10.700in X 8.400in X 0.470in X 1.420lb
