Design
Dragster
Designed by Glen-L Marine
An 18 ft 6 in speed and ski boat from Glen-L Marine, developed in the 1950s from the Hot Rod to take bigger, more powerful engines on a vee drive, and reissued from the archive as a discontinued design: the plans carry full dimensions but no full-size patterns. Vee-bottomed sheet plywood; inboard to 1,100 lb. Protected water only.
Without patterns the builder lays out the frames from dimensions, which adds work and needs care. Budget 500 to 900 hours. Measured medians from logged builds appear below.
What building a Dragster actually takes
Medians from the build logs kept on this site, not the designer’s estimate. Nobody has logged this boat here yet, so they are empty until the first builder does.
Those medians firm up as more people log this boat.
Builds of this boat
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Same type, closest in length.
| Design | Plans from | LOA | Logs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flats Flyer | Glen-L Marine | 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) | 0 |
| Goliath | Glen-L Marine | 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) | 0 |
| Tornado | Glen-L Marine | 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) | 0 |
| Two Plus | Glen-L Marine | 18′ 6″ (5.64 m) | 0 |
| 18' Seecruiser | Boatkits | 5.59 m (18′ 4″) | 0 |
| Little Hunk | Glen-L Marine | 18′ 3″ (5.56 m) | 0 |