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IN PRINT: BOOK AND PLAN SOURCES |
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Books
on the Light Schooner
Light
Schooner study plans
Light Schooner full plans
Light Schooner reviews and other publications
Other Bolger schooners
Square
Boats and other Bolger designs
Other
recommended readings
Light Schooner home page
SquareBoats! home page
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Books on the Light Schooner herself: |
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Philip C. Bolger (1982). 30-Odd Boats. International Marine Publishing Company, Camden, Maine. ISBN 0-87742-152-8 The Light Schooner is one of the 30-odd. You'll get most of this information in the following book, but the rest is a good read too. Out-of-print, but you may pick up a second-hand one. |
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Harold H. Payson (1985). Build the New Instant Boats. Stanford Maritime Ltd, London. ISBN 0-540-07315-6. (UK, Australia. In the US, same book but published by International Marine). Available everywhere. |
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The how-to-build book. There is a wealth of information in this book on building this sort of boat. Technologies have now swung to the use of epoxy rather than the original nail, glue, polyester and fibreglass tape systems, but this simply means that even a hopeless carpenter can succeed if he\she\it follows the plans. Specific Scooner building instructions, other than the making of spars, may seem a bit sparse, but this is because it's the last of a slew of boats in the book and all the techniques are covered in the earlier pages. But if this is your first boat building attempt then you really should have someone holding your hand, or try one of the smaller boats in the book. If it's not your first, then you'll manage fine. DON'T build from the drawings in this book alone-it's not that you can't, because we did, but we would have been smarter to buy the FULL-SIZE plans... BUT... you really need this book if you're thinking about building. Also, see HH Payson's catalog. |
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HH Payson's Build the Instant Catboat is also strongly recommended as a really good source of information on making spars. The catboat spars are very similar to the Light Schooner's, by the way. |
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Light Schooner study plans: |
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HH Payson & Co online catalogue has a downloadable study plan. Duck
Flat-Wooden Boats (1993) Duck Flat-Wooden Boats: A Book of dreams. Shop
catalogue, Adelaide. Long out of print but you might pick one up
on eBay. |
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Light Schooner full plans: |
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All plans are available from Phil Bolger & Friends at: Phil Bolger &
Friends, Inc. or from www.instantboats.com:
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Light Schooner reviews and other publications: |
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Build
Romance Into Your Life Australian Amateur Boat Builder Vol 2 Issue 2
(Spring 1993) Youth
Afloat - a launching of significance Australian Amateur Boat Builder No. 15
(Spring 1996) Australian Amateur BoatBuilder : contact Multihull World who published it trgarding articles or back issues. |
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Other Bolger schooners |
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While you're at it, there is a fleet of relatives to the Light Schooner designed by Phil Bolger. If you like the schooner feel but want accommodation and self-righting without going to big schooners, have a good look at the Jochems Family Schooner. Or go the whole hog and commission a custom design for precisely what you want. Contact: Phil Bolger &
Friends, Inc. |
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Square Boats and other Bolger designs |
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Bolger's last book "Boats with an Open Mind" International Marine 1994 ISBN 0-07-006376-1 has a selection of 75 designs, varying from the elegant to the pugnacious to the downright challenging... Great value, especially as Bolger is both honest with his appraissal and clear in teaching the non-specialist about what makes a good design. If you've waded this far through these websites, you'll want this at your pillow... |
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Other recommended readings |
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Phil
Bolger . 100 Small Boat Rigs. H.H. Payson & Co., South Thomaston,
Maine. ISBN 1-887222-01-4. |
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Gaff Rig Handbook (John Leather) and Hand Reef and Steer (Tom Cunliffe) are the two best references for anyone getting to grips with gaff - no question, no argument. |
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Thinking big? Liveaboarding (heaven forfend..)? or more rationally, weekending in larger boats? There's a huge amount of thoughtful information in Annie Hill's Voyaging on a Small Income. And there's still useful stuff in the original, Maurice Griffith's Sailing on a Modest Income. |
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If and only if you're in the US, "Sailing for Dummies" is a great book for novices to hide below and frequently consult! (We mean it about only in the US...follow its navigational instructions anywhere else in the world and you'll get wrecked, truly. Indeed, it should ahve a disclaimer regarding conflict with the International System of Bouyage.) |
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