ever see or hear of "Cameo" by Wm J. Deed?

[ChuckG]

So I pull down my copy of Rabl's BoatBuilding in Your Own BackYard, and out falls a page from the April 1976 National Fisherman. It's just one full page, and it has construction study drawings by Mssr Deed of a boat he's called "Cameo."

Cameo, as pictured, is about a 20 foot inboard launch, with a bit of a cabin forward with a lot of camber to the roof, an outside steering station just aft of amidships, and an outboard rudder.

I see there is a marine artist by the name of Wm J. Deed, but I find no other clue anywhere.

Anybody ever see or hear of this design or of Wiliam J. Deed?

[Keith Wilson]

Deed's Cameo design is covered pretty extensively in Weston Farmer's "From My Old Boatshop". I think Farmer wrote the article in National Fisherman, actually. Deed originally called the boat "Flapper" (1920s, you know); "Cameo" is Weston Farmer's name for it - guess he didn't like the original name.

Farmer writes a bit about Deed, has several of his designs in the book, and speaks very highly of his skills. Apparently he found it really difficult to make a living designing boats later, although that may have been in the '30s, when it was difficult to make a living doing just about anything.

[ 02-13-2004, 09:48 AM: Message edited by: Keith Wilson ]