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Gavin Atkin is known around the world for hisminimalist boat designs. His award-winning creations,including the celebrated Mouse, have been built by countlessboat enthusiasts.
Introduction | |
The Virtues of Small and Simple Boats | |
How We'll Build Them | |
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 | |
Materials and Tools | |
Plywood Buying | |
Plywood Lumber | |
Buying Lumber | |
Adhesives Epoxy | |
Polyurethane Glues Paint and Varnish Tools | |
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 | |
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) | |
Finishing Your Boat Painting | |
Painting with water-based paint | |
Painting with oil-based paint Varnishing | |
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 | |
Model making | |
Let's Build Some Boats | |
Minimouse and Micromouse: two tiny, flat-bottom double-paddle prams | |
Hull Decks Seats Les Brown's Micromouse | |
Lilypad: a stone-simple punt | |
Mouse and Rowing | |
Mouse: a V-bottomed messabout pram for double-paddle or oars | |
Cruising Mouse: a two-person rowing or paddling pram with carrying capacity | |
PoorBoy: a small outboard skiff | |
Dogsbody: a larger outboard boat | |
Jiggity: an "ultrasimplified" Auray punt | |
Aurette: a small sailing Auray punt | |
Piragua: a pirogue | |
Cinderella: a double-paddle canoe with a "roundish" bottom | |
Flying Mouse: a child's sailing pramString Sailing | |
Eek!: a larger, sportier sailing pram for more experienced kids and small adults | |
Puddle Duck Racer: the world's simplest racing class? | |
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 | |
Doris the Dory: a rowing and sailing expedition boat | |
What Shall We Build Next? | |
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 | |
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