Anyone seen a Nordlund Plywood boat?

[pirategilligan]

First off Im new here, so HELLO everyone. this is a great site lots of great information on our old woodies...
Anyways.
I have a 1961 Nordlund 26' plywood built boat. built by a guy named Norm Nordlund from Tacoma Wa, now dead, I havent found ANYONE that has even seen or heard of this vessel.. Is there anyone here that might have?
thanks..

rec409@juno.com
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Originally Posted by pirategilligan

First off Im new here, so HELLO everyone. this is a great site lots of great information on our old woodies...
Anyways.
I have a 1961 Nordlund 26' plywood built boat. built by a guy named Norm Nordlund from Tacoma Wa, now dead, I havent found ANYONE that has even seen or heard of this vessel.. Is there anyone here that might have?
thanks..

rec409@juno.com
Please reply

Nordlund Boat Company is still very much "in business," under
the management of the second gneration, building multi-million-
dollar "mega-yachts."

According to an article I read in Proffesional Boatbuilder magazine
a while back, they got their start building 26 ft plywood cruisers,
so chances are your boat was a very early one.

[pirategilligan]

Originally Posted by Wood Butcher

Nordlund Boat Company is still very much "in business," under
the management of the second gneration, building multi-million-
dollar "mega-yachts."

According to an article I read in Proffesional Boatbuilder magazine
a while back, they got their start building 26 ft plywood cruisers,
so chances are your boat was a very early one.

HI thanx for the reply!! I did just the other day talk to the Son of the Nordlund boat works.
Seems from him that at one point in time in about the third year of making these vessels, ther was a fire in the small barn that they were building these in Im guessing from that and that Paul nordlund, said to me that there really wasint any records from his father making them, or that the fire took all known records with it. He even said they looked through there past photos and couldnt find any of the older cruisers,. I guess from what he said they started making them in 1958 and somewhere between there and the early 60's had the fire....He dont have any idea how many his father made, for all I know he could have made only a very few.

Thats all I know, and All the son of the man that built them could tell me.. (Personally Id have thought the son that now runs a multibillion dollar yatch builing shop would have had a little more intrest in what his ol man did). SO i asked him if he Knows of any that are alive Today, he said no but heard that someone thought they might have seen an older nordlund plywood boat, but dont know nothing about it. So thats still a dead end.
Unless I can find someone that has seen or has a picture Or the BIG ONE,has one!, then Im lead to belive that i have the only one alive ,Today..
Mines made From MDO Mahogany marine 3/4" ply and 1/2" ply with Oak ribbing, and Straight grain Dough Fir stringers.
Ive just about compleated restoring her from the pervious owners demise, Luckly he took somewhat good care of her, Ive brought her back to the Mahogany Wood finish that it had from new, I can tell because ive compleatly stripped the boat and now am almost done finish varnishing her and putting on the trim work. should have her back in the water sometime by the end of this week.. Maybe get a 4th of july cruise from all my efforts.

sorry this is long winded, but anyone thats interested Ill try to post some pics.. maybe someone might recognize the style.
thanx again!

the Pirate!..

[pirategilligan]

here is some pictures of my boat this is the after pictures after the restoration job myself and my wife did...
just to give you an idea of what this boat looks like
maybe someone has seen one similar. as far as I have found. this is the only one on the west coast.

The pirate.!