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Carl Simmons
10-11-2005, 09:28 AM
Well, I've done it again. I bought this strip rowboat sight unseen off ebay ($.99). It needs a keel and probably a few strips replaced at a minimum but hey, its only money. In any event, I couldn't see it torched until it was given a chance to be saved. Anyway, does anyone have a clue as to the manufacture or at least somewhere to look?

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid190/p1e278158ce948d551533e01a173b8c1d/f1ee6fec.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid190/pe06acde3a6cab7f7abc642f98f6e7d66/f1ee703c.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid190/pff684c2795ce41dded443e3b346bd049/f1ee7047.jpg

Thanks,

Carl
chharvey
10-11-2005, 10:12 AM
Does it have half round ribs? Looks like a Peterborough to me.
Thorne
10-11-2005, 10:44 AM
I have SO been there! Best of luck, sorry no idea what make or model.

;- )
ion barnes
10-11-2005, 09:20 PM
Hmmm, I think I would have fallen for it too. Looks like a fifty footer (Looks good at fifty feet) as is. No idea what it is, see its missing the stem, but what is the condition of the rest of it?

Build up a laminated stem and replace a couple other pieces and you could be scooting about.
Andreas Jordahl Rhude
10-17-2005, 11:15 AM
Possibilities: Thompson Bros. Boat Mfg. Co., Penn Yan, Larson Boat Works, Alexandria Boat Works, Minnetonka Boat Works, ??
Carl Simmons
10-18-2005, 04:20 PM
I looked at the Penn Yan website and it does look like it could have come from there.
I'll contact them and see if they recognize it.

Thanks,

Carl.
Keith Wilson
10-18-2005, 04:42 PM
There were lots and lots of small manufacturers of strip-planked fishing boats all over the upper Midwest, probably 20 or 30 in Minnesota alone. The boats started out as rowboats, and got wider and wider in the transom as outboards became more common and more powerful, eventually evolving into the wooden predecessors of the ubiquitous aluminum skiff. As far as I can tell from the pictures, yours is a pretty late one, maybe '50s?, mainly intended to use a motor.

The cedar planking usually holds up pretty well, but the oak parts often don't - sometimes a result of the common problem that red oak gets whiter and whiter the farther away it gets from the tree. Nice boat, and you can't complain about the price; it looks like it has held its shape reasonably well.

[ 10-18-2005, 05:43 PM: Message edited by: Keith Wilson ]