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.
Perhaps America's (if not the world's) best-known writer on the building of small boats, Harold H. "Dynamite" Payson has been a lobsterman off his native Maine coast; a professional builder of plank-on-frame boats; an innovator and teacher of modern plywood boat construction; and a tireless and infectiously enthusiastic author, whose many magazine articles and books have inspired the building of more small boats than you could begin to count. Voted by the readers of Small Boat Journal to the Small Boat Hall of Fame, Dynamite is also the author of Boat Modeling the Easy Way, which delves into the lift method of modeling.