Thanks for the suggestion. I already spent a few hours going to all the
sponsors websites. No joy.

I have tried WestMarine, Google and Yahoo searches, and eBay. Still no
joy.

The dash on my boat is a slab of 3/4" mahogany epoxied to 3 layers of
marine ply. It is almost 3" thick. The whole topsides of the boat are
as overbuilt as the dash.

I found the sister ship on eBay, but I didn't buy it as it was already
complete and had an older two stroke on it. I live in California. Older
two strokes are banned from many places, with more to come. I contacted
the seller. He had my boat for sale, but not on eBay. She was never
completed. I got to finish it up as I wanted.

The description of the sister ship that was on ebay is as follows -


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The Story of this fantastic Custom boat.....
In the mid eighty's I had a idea to built wooden decks on fiberglass
hulls. Over a couple of years I built two proto types and worked with a
patent attorney on getting a patent for my idea. I got my patent
#5085162 in the early ninety's and gave up the business I had built
representing contract furniture companies. I hired a helper and
proceeded to start to build the boats.
My idea was, that there was a lot of beauty in the old wooden mahogany
runabouts of the 30's ,40's 50's and 60's but people did not want the
maintenance involved with wood. I thought if I were to take a
fiberglass hull and put a mahogany deck on it, the boat would have all
the advantages of a maintenance free fiberglass hull and have the
beauty of a mahogany deck and interior. The best of both worlds.
In 1992 I bought five fiberglass hulls from Olympic Boat Company in
Monroe WA. I had these hulls built specifically for me with a built up
flange around the hull to attach my wooden deck to. The basic hull is
17'7'' long. These hulls also had added stiffening (balsa core) added
to them to make them stronger. I also had custom 27 gallon fuel tanks
built into the hulls. Flotation was also built into the hulls.
The decks were built separate from the boat and added later. The decks
were built utilizing multiple layers of marine plywood all epoxyed
together. The 1/2" Mahogany planking was all cut and fit individually
with a inlay of Alaskan Yellow cedar fit between each plank. All planks
and inlays were bedded in epoxy and also stainless steel screwed to the
marine plywood deck. The screw 's were covered with mahogany bungs. The
deck's total thickness is 1 5/8", it is built very stout. Then the
entire deck was faired (sanded) and the finished deck was covered with
4 oz and or 6oz fiberglass cloth all covered with multiple coats of
epoxy and again faired between each coat. The finish on the deck is
multiple coats of Z-Spar varnish. The boats length is 18', beam 7'6'' ,
weight 1565 lbs

end

She is very pretty. Not perfect, but nice. I plan to take her to Tahoe
for the wooden boat show in August.


Mys Terry wrote:


If you go to the shipshape website, they have a list of all sponsors.
You can be pretty sure that the materials used in the show are all
from sponsors!

http://www.shipshapetv.com/