Ultrasimple Boatbuilding: 17 Plywood Boats Anyone Can Build

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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.

Introduction: The Virtues of Small and Simple Boats

PART 1 — HOW TO 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 — THE BOATS

8. Minimouse and Micromouse: 2 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

About the Author

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.

Ultrasimple Boatbuilding: 17 Plywood Boats Anyone Can Build