Jersey Girl · new build
LaunchedJim Norman's 20 foot houseboat, built in his northern New Jersey driveway from 2015 to 2021. The design started from Roy Schreyer's Dianne's Rose, stretched three feet and reworked into his own. Okoume plywood hull over sawn frames and bulkheads, a cabin of cedar posts and laminated roof beams sheathed in pine beadboard, and a fiberglassed arched roof with gull wing panels over the aft deck. Launched on the Hackensack River in May 2021, she now cruises Lake Hopatcong, where she took the Ladies' Choice award at the 2024 antique and classic boat show.
Houseboat update, Thursday, August 28, 2025 -- Jersey Girl in her new coat. I think she's looking pretty slick these days. I still haven't decided what to do with the railings. I'm leaning toward Cetol for the rub rail. Maybe for the railings as well. Whadd'yall think?
Nobody else here is logging a Jersey Girl yet. See the boat.