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.
Table of contents
- Introduction: The Virtues of Small and Simple Boats
- Part 1 How We'll 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 Let's Build Some Boats
- 8. Minimouse and Micromouse: two 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
- Murray Isles
- Swallowdale 15
- Swan Bay
- Pepper Gal
- John
Welsford
- Jacques Mertens-Goosens
- CK 17
- Otter 16
- Indian River Skiff
- Conrad Natzio
- Biographical note:
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.
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