looking for pulling boat designer

[kerry]

I am set to make six 17' identical pulling boats for a club. I am looking for a professional designer to tune and then vet the traditional design before production. (Due diligence!) Central US preferably, but . . .

[Hans Friedel]

Hello

But I am not close

[pbury]

Kerry, I have designed a 17' traditional pulling boat for lapstrake construction. Not sure if this is what you are after but details are on my website at www.bury.com.au in the power designs section.

[CDBarry]

Talk to Tim Graul in Sturgeon Bay

http://timgraul.com

[sal's Dad]

Talk to the various rowing clubs - Floating the Apple, the people at Hull Lifesaving museum, Atlantic Challenge, both AtlanticChallenge groups (international youth race is .org; Maine Apprenticeshop is .com); many more groups in the northeast...

Sal's Dad

[kerry]

Hans Friedel, Thank you for the reply. But I fear the distance may be unworkable.

[kerry]

Sal's Dad,

thanks, I'll follow up.

[kerry]

pbury,
thank you for the reply. Again, the distance seems problematic.

[kerry]

CDBarry,
Thanks. He's certainly close. I'll check it out.

[messabout]

The weekend of April 1, 2, I attended the Florida Gulf Coast traditional boat festival. There were some utterly spectacular pulling boats on display, wherries, whitehalls, adirondack guideboats. I rowed some of them...Aahhhhh!..soul satisfying euphoria. The most outstanding of these was from an outfit called Adirondack Guide Boats, from Vermont. (Not as far away as Sweden.) This outfit sells completed boats as well as kits. Since you want several of them you may be able to cut some kind of deal. Chesapeake Light Craft also sells some very creditable wherrie kits. Both these firms have very well proven designs that would be hard to improve within reasonable limits.

[Vega]

Kerry, I have designed a 17' traditional pulling boat for lapstrake construction. www.bury.com.au in the power designs section.

It is a very nice boat...and I love even more your Bancroft 30. Congratulations:cool: