PM 38 Blueprints Found - Rare?

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!

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.