All-Purpose Portable Boat
A winter evening project for the sportsman: inexpensive, easily built, safe and satisfactory
- Category
- Outboard Runabouts
- Designer
- William D. Jackson
- Published
- Boat Builder's Annual, p. 48
- Craft Print
- 3
A general-purpose small boat that fills every need, from trolling speeds to 35 mph, with only 1 to 10 hp. At 125 lb it car-tops easily, rows with little effort and is very economical on fuel. The canvas-covered plywood hull is permanently leakproof, and 1940s materials cost under $18.
Specifications
- Weight
- 125 lb (hull)
- Construction
- 1/4 in. waterproof plywood, canvas-covered
- Power
- 1–10 hp outboard or oars; 5–35 mph
Downloads
Plan sheets 6
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