Modified Thomson-Malyea Handliner --- $45 + $5 S&H
Length overall 14 feet, moulded beam 44-1/2", mid-depth 16".
Full working drawings. Two sheets 24x36, drawn at 1/8 scale. Plans show general layout, construction sections, lines and offsets, materials and scantlings listing, sail plan, oars and spars, stringseat details, and brief history. Construction is traditional strip-planking, edge-nailed and glued, with bent ribs. Sprit-rig, area 26sf. The original 13-foot boat was built by Roy Malyea in 1937 in Gibsons, British Columbia. Will Thomson built two copies in 1964 & '65. I used Will's measurements and increased the length to 14 feet to carry passengers better.
Grundison Hand-Troller, 1946 --- $35 + $5 S&H
Length overall 14 feet, moulded beam 45-7/8", mid-depth 16-5/8".
Full working drawings. One sheet 24x36, drawn at 1/8 scale. Plans show general layout, construction sections, lines and offsets, plank widths, materials and scantlings listing, spoon oars, herring rake, and brief history. Construction is traditional carvel-planking with bent ribs. This boat was not rigged to sail. John Grundison built three handliners with his sons Bob and Bill in 1944, '45, and '46, so they could go fishing in the area around Victoria, British Columbia. This is the third one they built. Bob is still using it for sport.
Evans Hand-Troller, 1930's
I prepared these plans for the Sunshine Coast Museum and they are available from them only. The original was built in Robert's Creek, British Columbia by Canadian author Hubert Evans. His article "Day of the Hand Troller" is one of very few first-hand accounts of the handline fishery in BC.
Length overall 14'-7", moulded beam 44-3/8", mid-depth 15-3/8".
Full working drawings. Two sheets 24 x 36 drawn at 1/8 scale. Plans show general layout, construction sections, lines and offsets, materials and scantlings listing, sail plan, oars and spars, perspective view, plank widths, and brief history. Construction is traditional carvel-planking with bent ribs.
From an old half-model collected in New Brunswick in the 1960's by the late Ray MacKean, author of "The Little Boats".
Length overall 25-1/2 feet, moulded beam 53", mid-depth 27-5/8", draft 19-1/2".
One sheet 24 x 36 drawn at 1/12 scale: lines and offsets only, brief history and notes. No structural details. This slim boat is typical of many early power-boats that sought high speeds with the heavy-duty low-horsepower gasoline engines then available. Hull type is round-bilged double-wedge with built-down wineglass sections aft, and a distinctive torpedo stern.
The original was built at Gibsons Landing, British Columbia.
Length overall 13 feet, moulded beam 54", mid-depth 21-1/2".
Study Plans show lines, construction section, general arrangement, interior layout, engine installation. No builder's offsets are given. Originally published as a "Boatbuilder" magazine article. A single letter-size drawing at 1/24 scale and accompanying 2-page article. These boats were known as 'putt-putts' or 'putters' because of the sound of the slow-running single-cylinder (air-cooled Briggs, Wisconsin, etc.) engines typically used. Strip-planked with bent frames.