Boat Models
Updated on: 11 November, 2007
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| I finished this peapod model in January 2006. It is another boat from Dynamite Payson’s model building book. | This model is made from white pine, re-sawn from 1×8. The oarlocks are from toothpicks. I started it at Thanksgiving and built it while I was using up 2 weeks of vacation. | Getting the planks to stay tight to the mold was the biggest problem. I had discarded two earlier starts. |
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| The Bobcat is fromDynamite Payson’s model building book. | This model is made mostly from white pine, re-sawn from 1×8. White pine is easy to work and gives a pleasant appearance when varnished. The coaming and rub rail are red cedar. I call it faux mahagony. | Cutting the deck as one piece was a bit of trick. My table saw cuts to 3 1/2 inches, the deck is about 6 inches wide. |
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| The view aft shows the halyards and deck cleats. | The Cartopper is Dynamite Payson design. The Cartopper as a full-size boat is designed to weigh less than 100 pounds. It is a multi-function boat for small-outboard, rowing, and sailing. As a boat, based on my experience with the model, I would say it would be an excellent first boat to build. | This rowboat is resting on the frame that it was built on. The book suggests solid wood for the frame for the model but scale 2×4′s seemed to work too.The lobster boat in the background is also from the book. This one has weathered for a year outside. |
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| I built this dory from a kit fromMidwest Products about 10 years ago. Midwest has excellent kits that are accurately cut and crystal clear instructions . | My wife sewed the sail. The kit comes with a piece of cloth for the sail but it did not seem right at the time. Payson’s book builds this boat a couple of different ways but not with lapped planks. | This fantail launch, also a kit (actually 3 kits, the boat, the engine, and the running gear kit which was separate when I got mine) from Midwest Products. It is glued seam construction. |
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| I put a piece of teak veneer from Constantine’s on over the basswood deck. about 10 years ago. | The engine could be built with a drill press, hacksaw and file if you could find all of the stock. It is an oscillating design. The boiler is sweat soldered from copper pipe. The bottom is a brass skirt. The top has wood for insulation held on by brass straps. | The running gear kit includes a propeller, shaft, thru-the-hull tube, and the rudder. The hull is covered with fiberglass which does not come with the kit but is required for water use. |
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