Practical Small Boat Designs

Foreword by Mike O'Brien*.

As fans of Atkin designs well know, the name Atkin has long been associated with the best in basic boats. If you are looking for the "right little boat" to build--or have built--or if you just enjoy dreaming over boat plans, you'll be more than pleased with this collection of John and Billy Atkin's most successful designs.

Table of Contents:

Willy Winship: 14' flat-bottom racing skiff

Liza Jane: 19' v-bottomed knockabout

Shore Liner: 24' flat-bottomed jib-headed sloop

New Sister: 24' flat-bottomed gaff-headed sloop

Tri-Trainer: 10'10" flat-bottomed sailing skiff

Erika: 14'9" flat-bottomed sailing skiff

Martha Green: 24' skipjack powerboat

Nina: 11'4" flat-bottomed sailing skiff

Florence Oakland: 22'5" v-bottomed schooner

Valgerda: 18'7" Hardangersjekte

Great Bear: 28' flat-bottomed sloop

James Samuel: 20' flat-bottomed catboat

Schatze: 7'10" pram

Ninigret: 22' v-bottomed bassboat

Finkeldink: 9' pram

Bruce Conklin: 15'6" pulling boat

Cabin Boy: 7'6" flat-bottomed skiff

Elon Jessup: 16'6-3/8" flat-bottomed outboard

Tom Davin: 20' 3/4" flat-bottomed skiff

Amos Brown: 22'4-3/4" v-bottomed sloop

Flipper: 10'1/2" flat-bottomed sailing skiff

Pollard 19: 19' fast powerboat

Wild Onion: 18' v-bottomed sloop

Awake: 13'11" Swampscott rowing dory

Petey Dink CM: 6'6" round-bottomed pram

Handy Andy: 8' round-bottomed sailing dinghy

James Samuel, Jr.: 17'1" flat-bottomed catboat

Sedge: 15'3" flat-bottomed outboard

176 pp., softover
7" x 10"
ISBN 10: # 1-934982-05-9
ISBN 13: # 978-1-934982-05-1

*Mike is a long-time editor of WoodenBoat and published his own magazine Boat Design Quarterly, from 1991 - 2019.