Boat Modeling with Dynamite Payson: A Step-By-Step Guide to Building Models of Small Craft [Paperback]

Harold H. Payson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1989

In Boat Modeling with Dynamite Payson, the well-known author/boatbuilder applies his "instant approach" to building tabletop replicas of small rowing and sailing craft suitable for the mantel, mud puddles, or just dreaming. He starts with a simple lobsterboat anyone can build in an hour and progresses through dories, skiffs, catboats, and peapods-there's even a Friendship sloop and a sardine carrier. Dynamite's friendly, no-nonsense instructions and step-by-step photographs, coupled with marine artist Doug Alvord's beautiful drawings, guide the reader through each boat's construction, from stem to stern. The only modeling book written by a real Maine boatbuilder, Dynamite Payson will feed the fantasies and hone the skills of armchair sailors of all ages and degrees of competence, whether as a warm-up to a full-size boatbuilding project, or as an end in itself.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Tired of $250 clipper ship kits that aren't big enough to house a traveling flea circus, and which you'll never finish anyway? Don't want another modeling book by a hobbyist who has never built a real boat or seen salt water? In Boat Modeling With Dynamite Payson, the well-known author/boatbuilder takes his instant approach to building full-size boats down a peg, to tabletop replicas of small rowing and sailing craft suitable for the mantle, mudpuddles, or just dreaming.

To build the beginning modeler's confidence, Dynamite starts with a very simple toy lobsterboat anyone can build in an hour, then walks the reader through a progressively more complex family of models--dories, skiffs, catboats, peapods--that each introduce a new facet of the craft. Dynamite's friendly, no-nonsense instructions and step-by-step photographs, coupled with marine artist Doug Alvord's handsome drawings, guide the reader through each boat's construction, from stem to stern.

The only modeling book written by a real Maine boatbuilder, Boat Modeling With Dynamite Payson will feed the fantasies and hone the skills of armchair sailors of all ages and degrees of competence, whether as a warm-up to a full-size boatbuilding project, or as an end in itself.

Dear Dynamite:

"Your matter-of-fact style takes boatbuilding from a world of offset tables and woodworking mystique into everyone's backyard shop."--Mark Klopfenstein, Fullerton, California

"As a technical writer, I appreciate a book that is well organized, simple, and straightforward in its approach, and uses a minimum of extraneous words . . . Thanks for writing something that a novice can understand without either becoming intimidated or being made to feel stupid."--Art Norrington, Clute, Texas

"I have the greatest admiration for your work, for your unusual teaching skills and ability to inspire even the most hardcore procrastinators into action."--Sean Gagnier, Mendocino, California

"Not only do you provide excellent information--well laid out and very readable--but you have the knack of allowing the reader to get to know you as a person--an excellent combination of talents."--Robert W. Norris, Columbia, Maryland

"I feel like an old friend already! I have just started to read your book for the third time in a week. I am impressed by the simplicity of it all; the method of construction, the design, the clear and humorous instruction."--Peter Fitzpatrick, Kelowna, British Columbia

"Carpenters and boatbuilders might be a dollar a dozen, but people like you are a blessing to mankind. You are to boatbuilding what Professor Suzuki was for music and violin playing; opening fields of joy which were before considered the exclusive province of the happy few."--Glorieux, Antwerpen, Belgium

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: International Marine Publishing (October 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071573712
• ISBN-13: 978-0071573719
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,271,582 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #88 in Books > Professional & Technical > Transportation > Ships > Boat Building

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A little and precious book about boats modelling, June 20, 2000

By 

Antonio Marcelo (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boat Modeling with Dynamite Payson: A Step-By-Step Guide to Building Models of Small Craft (Paperback)

Like your other practice books, "Dynamite" Pason apply your building technics in the small models and bring to modeler wonderful results. The technics are very simple, the projects are fast and playable, and the sequence of pictures of the projects, excelent. I recommend this book for the begginer modeler and for the people who likes nautical models. The results are very beautiful.

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book, January 13, 2009

By 

stony "stony" (north pole) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boat modeling with Dynamite Payson (Paperback)

I havnt had a chance to begin building a model as yet but this is the book i chose to take my plans from.A wide choice of models to chose from well and truely detailed instructions and photos.Absolutely marvelous step by step to completion.Most model boat books offer one boat plan , maybe two or three.
This epic will keep me busy for years to come i can already see.I doubt if youll find a better book and ive bought a few here on Amazon.