6/13/2023 0 Comments Stowing fenders on wood runabout![]() The stem is faced with a stainless steel protection strip and carries the eye bolt to haul her back onto her trailer. Single center-line polished stainless steel mooring cleat on the fore deck with fair leads either side and a single mooring cleat on the aft deck. The rudder and shaft P-bracket were custom made in cast bronze. Bright metal is polished stainless steel. All structural members are fastened with silicon bronze screws. The cock-pit is lined in teak, the benches are all teak. The deck is laid in African mahogany over an epoxy-sealed marine ply sub deck. The keel, hog, apron and web frames are all in teak. Recognising that a boat like this will inevitably spend a lot of time out of the water on a trailer and when launched from time to time must stay dry, they chose Robbins Timber Elite marine ply for the hull skin. The boat was nominated for the Classic Boat Magazine 2013 New Build of the Year.Ī short article and photos were published in the American Wooden Boat magazine in July 2013. This enabled young boat-builders Kyle Abingdon and Maris Skabardis to build her in 2012 as a demonstration of the skills and ability they bring to their new boat building and repair business established in Kent in 2011. A contemporary article describes the construction and specification in great detail. ![]() Great care was taken over the choice and weight of the power unit and the balance of the boat at speed. Of course price was always an issue so ease of construction was a consideration in the design which follows Hand’s established practice of a V-bottom and chine. One thinks immediately of the Italian Riva and the American ChrisCraft.Īlthough not so well known in Europe, William Hand was a marine architect working in Bedford Mass.and designed many boats on the same theme. The theme of the runabout was popular, dictated by the many accessible inland and sheltered waters of the US east coast and Europe and many exquisite designs evolved in the US and in Europe. Wooden ships comments on this 4 seater runabout ![]()
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