PM 38 Blueprints Found - Rare?

[CustomX]

Hi everyone,

I know little about boats but found these blueprints at a local auction so I bought them. Did Popular Mechanics send these blueprints to people who ordered them or could they possibly be the original blueprints from when the boat was designed?

I would appreciate any info people may have.

Thank you!

 

[Ike]

Popular Mechanics published a lot of designs for small boats. I don't know if they are original. Even if they are, I don't think they are particularly valuable except maybe to a maritime museum. I think they are copies. The original drawings would be pen and ink on velum or other drafting paper, from which blueprints were then printed.

 

[skaraborgcraft]

Prints like that would often come in the magazine. I have a collection of old MotorBoating Volumes, and many of the designs come with such blue prints. I was apparently sitting on $10s of thousands worth of Atkin designs.

 

[CustomX]

Oh ok, I didn’t know they came in the magazine like that. I googled it, of course, and couldn’t find anything on blueprints anywhere. I found articles in the magazine that described how to build it but nothing with actual blueprints.

 

[rangebowdrie]

Prints like that would often come in the magazine. I have a collection of old MotorBoating Volumes, and many of the designs come with such blue prints. I was apparently sitting on $10s of thousands worth of Atkin designs.

Me too, had several of the ~ 8 1/2 x 11 hard bound books of his designs published by Motor Boating.
Spent untold hours studying/absorbing his work.
And Motor Boating published a plan each month in their magazine for years.
When you buy a set of blueprints/plans, most of what you're paying for is the table of offsets and to a lesser degree the construction plan.

 

[skaraborgcraft]

Most of the MotorBoating i have prior to 1950 have blueprints, most of the later volumes did not, but still had line plans and offsets. I bought some Plans from Pat Atkin, they were identical in detail to what was in the books, just on a slightly larger scale.

Some of the blue prints for some Hacker boats are quite something.