David W. Dillion Collection
Abstract
Plans for small boats including skiffs, peapods, Rangeley boats, pulling boats and a Bindals boat.
Dates
- Creation: Undated
Restrictions on Access
Available for use in the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library.
Restrictions on Use
Various copying restrictions apply. Guidelines are available from the Ships Plans Library.
Biography of Dillion, David W.
David W. Dillion was an engineering draftsman before establishing a career as a freelance boat documentation specialist. He measured and drew more than seventy boats up to a hundred feet in length and taught lines-taking at the WoodenBoat School and half a dozen maritime museums across the United States. His plans have been published in WoodenBoat and other periodicals. He was the major contributor to the Museum Small Craft Association’s publication Boats, A Manual for Their Documentation.
Extent
37 sheet(s)
15 design(s)
Language of Materials
Undetermined
- Title
- David W. Dillion Collection
- Subtitle
- An Inventory of the Collection at the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library, Mystic Seaport Museum
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library Repository
G. W. Blunt White Library
Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc.
112 Greenmanville Avenue
Mystic Connecticut 06355 United States
860.572.5367
collections@mysticseaport.org