Product Description
Well-known author/boatbuilder, Dynamite Payson applies his ``instant approach'' to building replicas of small rowing and sailing craft. He starts with a simple lobsterboat that anyone can build in an hour and progresses through dories, skiffs, catboats, peapods, a sloop and a sardine carrier. Dynamite's friendly, no-nonsense instructions and step-by-step photos guide the reader easily through each boat's construction.
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