WORKABLE PLANS FOR PRACTICAL BOATS
VOLUME 47
Copyright, 1958

TABLE OF CONTENTS
How to Get the Most in the Least Space
Quality in Fiberglass Boats
Fiberglass Masts
How to Build a Fiberglass Ice Box
Glass Your Boat
Preventing Wood Rot in Boats
A Three-Ply Backyard Boatbuilding Job
Refrigeration for the Cruiser
A Practical Windshield Wiper for Small Craft
Tanks for Outboard Cruisers
Kathy, a Unique Outboard Cruising Runabout (Don Rodney)
Cabin Lights for Kathy
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Fiberglass Cruisers
Flying Fish, an 18-footer for inboard or outboard
Adventurer, a 22-footer, inboard or outboard-powered
Mainliner, a 23-foot inboard
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Utility Boats
Ike, 15-foot V-bottom fisherman (William Atkin)
Afterglow, a V-bottom 15-footer with lapstrake topsides (Atkin Design)
Everhope, a 20-foot shallow draft fisherman (William Atkin)
Ba-Ba, a 21-foot V-bottom of generous beam (William Atkin)
Plain Jane, a 22-footer powered for 21 mph (Atkin Design)
Easy, a round-bottom 22-footer (Atkin Design)
Shoals Runner, a 22-foot modified Seabright skiff (Atkin Design)
Spermaceti, a seagoing 28-foot Seabright skiff (William Atkin)
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Sailboats
Precious, seven feet of shipshape dinghy (Atkin Design)
Vintage, a 10-foot sprit-rigged lapstrake dinghy (Atkin Design)
Baby Lou, a flat bottom 10-footer, Marconi rigged (William Atkin)
Pocahontas, a charming 12-foot gaff-rigged sloop (Atkin Design)
Dickey, a 14½-foot flat bottom sailing skiff (William Atkin)
Perigee, a deep draft 17-foot outboard auxiliary sloop (William Atkin)
Greenshank, an 18-foot Marconi centerboard knockabout (William Atkin)
Lagoon, a 21-foot V-bottom centerboarder (William Atkin)
Victoria, 22-foot centerboarder for day sailing (Atkin Design)
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Inboard Auxiliaries
Blue Bird, 18-foot round bottom knockabout (William Atkin)
America Junior, a gaff-rigged schooner under 26 feet (William Atkin)
Thistle, a seagoing 32-foot double-ender (William Atkin)
Jonquil, a 33-foot ketch-rigged auxiliary (William Atkin)
Ingrid, 37½-foot Colin Archer type double-ender (William Atkin)
Meridian, a 39-foot seagoing Marconi-rigged yawl (William Atkin)
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Miscellaneous Types
Kayak - how to build a 12-footer
Huckleberry Finn, a steel 50-foot twin-screw houseboat (Atkin Design)
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