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IN PRINT: BOOK AND PLAN SOURCES | |
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
 All
books referred to on this page live on our shelves and are falling apart
from overuse....hardbacks are the best investment if you can get them!
Some of those listed are out of print (sigh...). Others may be available
from your local specialist bookseller, but if you want to buy on line,
the "Buying Online" links take you to the relevant page at Amazon.com. |
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Books on the Light Schooner herself: |
| 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. | 
Buying online |
| 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. | 
Buying online |
| 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. |
| 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. | 
Buying online |
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Light Schooner study plans: |
| 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.
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Light Schooner full plans: |
| All plans are available from
Phil Bolger & Friends at:
PO Box 1209 Gloucester, MA 01930 USA Fax 508-282-1349 or from www.instantboats.com: 
Harold H. Payson & Co. Pleasant Beach Road South Thomaston, Maine 04858 ph. (207) 594-7587 |
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Light Schooner reviews and other publications: |
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Other Bolger schooners |
| 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:
PO Box 1209 Gloucester, MA 01930 USA Fax 508-282-1349 |
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Square Boats and other Bolger designs |
| Bolger's latest 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... | 
Buying online |
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Other recommended readings |
| Phil Bolger . 100 Small
Boat Rigs. H.H. Payson & Co., South Thomaston, Maine. ISBN 1-887222-01-4.
This extraordinary book is back out of print again. However, there is a new edition (103 Small Boat Rigs) for which we have neither the price nor the ISBN, but which we understand can be ordered from Phil Bolger & Friends,. If you want to really understand the rigs of all these boats, buy this book. Light Schooner fans: study the sections on cat-schooners and schooners generally. |
Order from Phil Bolger & Friends |
| 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. |  
See our reviews |
| Thinking big? Liveaboarding (heaven forfend..)? or more rationally, weekending in larger boats? There's a huge amount of throughtful 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. |  
See our comments |
| 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...) | 
See our comments |