This book, written by Joel Thurtell, explains how he turned an old fiberglass boat mold into a beautiful wooden sailboat and what he learned along the way.

 

It was a fantasy that turned into an obsession and finally a love affair with an old wooden boat hull that had never been sailed. Making this industrial artifact seaworthy was a seven-year quest for longtime newspaper reporter Joel Thurtell.

Plug Nickel is a collection of Joel's columns about the trials, tribulations and triumphs of a lay person - not a trained woodworker or boat builder - who managed, on a shoestring, to turn an old fiberglass boat mold into a functional wooden boat.