Hello all. This is my first post here. Forgive me if this is the wrong forum or the wrong location, but I need some help.
My Internet searches for the boat shown below have been fruitless. Over the last several months I've visited all of the boat plan and manufacturer sites such as Svenson, Glen-L, and anything else I could find either in the Popular Mechanics listings or elsewhere and have come up empty.
Here's the story that goes with the boat:
In the '50s by grandfather built 3 different boats. One was a small cartop sailboat for the kids to play with, one was a small outboard utility boat that he quickly sold to a couple of college students after he realized it didn't fit within his growing family's desire to go waterskiing. And the third one is the boat shown below with the family in front of it.
This third boat was built around 1955-1956 from a set of plans my grandfather ordered. It may have also been a kit of some type. Although he could remember countless details about this boat and it's construction, my grandfather could never remember what happened to the plans, or the name of the company from which they were purchased. I know the original engine was a 1956 Evinrude, but after one year he traded that one in on the new 1957 model 35 HP big twin Evinrude that had just come out because it had an electric start or something like that. The boat is made of plywood. The fins are a significant feature. I was also told the transom and motor were inset somewhat, or that the hull continued back on either side of the lower unit. You can't see it behind the family, but it also has a curved glass windshield.
My mom and my aunts all have fond memories of going out in the garage and "helping" my grandfather drill all of the screw holes with a hand crank drill, putting the screws in, and then filling all of the little holes with putty. The whole family learned to ski behind this boat. It served the family for about 15 years before the desire for something a little more powerful took over. The boat traded hands within the family a couple of times and was eventually sold around the early '80s at a garage sale to someone who was going to use it as a little fishing boat around the northeast Colorado and southwest Nebraska area. My uncle, the little guy shown in the picture below, knew who the boat was sold to and sort of kept track of where it was located. He has since lost track of where it is.
My grandfather passed away this year. When the family was all together, much of the conversation revolved around this boat and the good times that were had by all out at the lake. I even have memories of riding in, driving, and skiing behind this boat before it was sold to someone outside of the family.
The ideal situation would be to find this exact boat in restoreable condition. However, we all realize the likelyhood of that is virtually zero. The next best thing would be to find the plans to this boat, recreate it, and continue with the memory-making.
I wish I had more than just the one picture, but it is all I have right now. The picture shown below was taken in about 1962 of my grandmother, aunts, and uncle in front of the boat at Empire Reservoir between Greeley and Ft Morgan, Colorado.
Can anyone help me find the plans that were used to build this boat?
My Internet searches for the boat shown below have been fruitless. Over the last several months I've visited all of the boat plan and manufacturer sites such as Svenson, Glen-L, and anything else I could find either in the Popular Mechanics listings or elsewhere and have come up empty.
Here's the story that goes with the boat:
In the '50s by grandfather built 3 different boats. One was a small cartop sailboat for the kids to play with, one was a small outboard utility boat that he quickly sold to a couple of college students after he realized it didn't fit within his growing family's desire to go waterskiing. And the third one is the boat shown below with the family in front of it.
This third boat was built around 1955-1956 from a set of plans my grandfather ordered. It may have also been a kit of some type. Although he could remember countless details about this boat and it's construction, my grandfather could never remember what happened to the plans, or the name of the company from which they were purchased. I know the original engine was a 1956 Evinrude, but after one year he traded that one in on the new 1957 model 35 HP big twin Evinrude that had just come out because it had an electric start or something like that. The boat is made of plywood. The fins are a significant feature. I was also told the transom and motor were inset somewhat, or that the hull continued back on either side of the lower unit. You can't see it behind the family, but it also has a curved glass windshield.
My mom and my aunts all have fond memories of going out in the garage and "helping" my grandfather drill all of the screw holes with a hand crank drill, putting the screws in, and then filling all of the little holes with putty. The whole family learned to ski behind this boat. It served the family for about 15 years before the desire for something a little more powerful took over. The boat traded hands within the family a couple of times and was eventually sold around the early '80s at a garage sale to someone who was going to use it as a little fishing boat around the northeast Colorado and southwest Nebraska area. My uncle, the little guy shown in the picture below, knew who the boat was sold to and sort of kept track of where it was located. He has since lost track of where it is.
My grandfather passed away this year. When the family was all together, much of the conversation revolved around this boat and the good times that were had by all out at the lake. I even have memories of riding in, driving, and skiing behind this boat before it was sold to someone outside of the family.
The ideal situation would be to find this exact boat in restoreable condition. However, we all realize the likelyhood of that is virtually zero. The next best thing would be to find the plans to this boat, recreate it, and continue with the memory-making.
I wish I had more than just the one picture, but it is all I have right now. The picture shown below was taken in about 1962 of my grandmother, aunts, and uncle in front of the boat at Empire Reservoir between Greeley and Ft Morgan, Colorado.
Can anyone help me find the plans that were used to build this boat?
