Fisherman is designed primarily for easy transportation by automobile. It does not need a special trailer but can be simply carried on the top or back of a car or on a house trailer. It is the ideal fishing boat for use on those hard-to-reach lakes, which today yield the biggest catches. Although it can be rowed easily it is particularly adapted for use with small outboards up to 6 h.p., and so is also suitable for use as a small utility runabout, tender or playboat. In designing Fisherman, it has been borne in mind that many who have had no previous boat building experience naturally make their first boat a small one. All the way through, then, construction has been made just as simple as possible, while an unusual number of details are given in the article, to help the man who will build in Fisherman his first boat. Large enough to hold three adults, it can be built to weigh as little as seventy-five pounds, complete, by using light cedar planking and cedar and spruce framework. The principal measurements are: length over all, 91/2 feet, beam, 42 inches, and depth, 13 inches. It may be built with three seats and a short deck or can be decked over to frame No. 3, omitting the front seat. The weight would be about the same either way. The batten-seam construction used not only decreases the weight greatly but prevents leaking no matter how long the boat may be dried out.
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