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POLLIWOG
An 18-foot cruising sailboat.
Beam: 6 feet 5 inches.
Draft: 2 feet 10 inches.
By William Garden
Naval Architect
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Polliwog is built upside
down. Here, the stem and
the four sawed frames are
in place on the harplngs.
Stern will be added next.
Mechanix Illustrated
With planking completed and
deadwood in place, Polliwog
is ready to be flopped over
and bolted to her iron keel,
which is positioned nearby.
Large-Scale Plans
will s i m p l i f y building.
Please specify Plan No.
B-210 and forward $3 to
MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED
Plans Service, Fawcett
Bldg., Greenwich, Conn.
then cutting to eight sides, then rounding headstay fitting. The foundry will require
off. When smoothed up and sanded, apply a pattern. When making the patterns
two coats of hot boiled linseed oil and finish for this and for the keel, shrink can be
with three coats of varnish. disregarded since we aren't working to
A detail shows the manganese-bronze close tolerances. •
Mechanix Illustrated
DECKTREAD" OR SIMILAR
COATING ON PLYWOOD DECK.