How to Build the Gloucester Light Dory

How to Build the Gloucester Light Dory
Author: Harold H. Payson
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1988-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780937822043

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

Instant Boats
Author: Harold Payson
Publisher: Wooden Boat Publications
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2001
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781934982082

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

The Dory Book
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2022-06-15
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1493068326

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.

Build the Instant Catboat

Build the Instant Catboat
Author: Harold Payson
Publisher: Wooden Boat Publications
Total Pages: 42
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781934982099

Featuring one of Phil Bolger's clean, simple designs. Dynamite clearly explains the building process that will result in your own 12' gaff-rigged catboat using the stitch-and-glue plywood method.

Kayakcraft

Kayakcraft
Author: Ted Moores
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1999
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780937822562

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

Keeping the Cutting Edge

Keeping the Cutting Edge
Author: Harold H. Payson
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1983
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780937822029

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

Build the New Instant Boats
Author: Harold H. Payson
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1984-12
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780071559669

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

Instant Boatbuilding with Dynamite Payson

Instant Boatbuilding with Dynamite Payson
Author: Harold H. Payson
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2007-04-30
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0071743561

From the acknowledged master of the “instant boat”—tips, techniques, and designs for quick-and-easy plywood boatbuilding Dynamite Payson offers you a new guide to building 15 exciting boats from master designer Phil Bolger. Instant Boatbuilding with Dynamite Payson includes plans and instructions for a multipurpose skiff for sail, oar, and power; a pirogue for single or double paddle; a big pram dinghy; a maneuverable peapod; a long, fast, rowing dory; a rugged outboard-powered work skiff; and more. You will enjoy the commonsense advice, step-by-step building instructions, and tips on tools and materials that have made Payson a hero of amateur boatbuilders worldwide.