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Custom built work utility vessel
Designed and constructed by a sea captain with 46 years experience in the fishing industry who holds a PHD in Oceanography but not in wooden boatbuilding.

The boat's double-bottom self-bailing cockpit gives her the safety of added flotation. Her 7ft1in beam carries an ample size center console which can seat two ahead of the binnacle with storage space for life jackets, battery installation, etc. The boat has 2 lateral seats which can seat 6 people and a forward seat that is a storage locker that can hold an anchor line. There are also 2 large utility boxes under the 2 lateral seats with pull out drawers .
The boat is constructed of oak frames, blue rock pine, white ash, marine plywood, and is fiberglass reinforced.


She awaits an outboard package and helm controls.


Additional comments: If you like the ruggedness of a wooden built boat, you should come and have a look at this "SUV". You can take the thwart seats out for 360 instant fishing access, or place the seats in and take out a full crew. This boat looks like it would work well in areas where a flat bottom boat is useful, as well as to ferry gear out to a larger fishing vessel.