Thanks for the inspiration your magazine has given me to undertake a boat build. I started subscribing one month after your “Getting Started In Boats” section launched, and I have been a faithful reader of every issue since.
This is my prototype wooden boat built from 2012 to June 2019, with length 5m, width 2m, weight 1 ton, 75 hp, boarding capacity is 7.
A family member built this boat in Louisiana in the early sixties. I remember many early mornings fishing from it as a kid. I spent over 2 years restoring this 54 year old boat along with the original motor that I now use in Panama City, Florida.
Traditional plank-on-frame Beetle Cat built in 1984, the first year in which the coamings were book-matched. The Beetle Cat is one of the oldest one-designs still being constructed out of wood and actively raced.
From the The Australian Register of Historic Vessels: “SILVER CLOUD II is wooden motor cruiser built in 1968.
Built 1938 at Fisherman’s Wharf San Francisco by Dominic LaBruzzi.
Re-purposed in 1950s by High School Industrial Arts teacher.
Re-powered 2005 from Hicks single cylinder to Perkins 107 (Westerbeke 52) four cylinder.
