Design

L Dorado

The L Dorado is a 13 ft finned outboard runabout from Glen-L Marine's 1957 catalog, one of its most popular designs ever, revived online for people who want the boat to trail behind a '56 Thunderbird. Vee-bottomed sheet plywood, about 260 lb, outboards to 40 hp.

A conventional plywood build with fifties styling to fuss over. Budget 200 to 350 hours. Measured medians from logged builds appear below.

What building a L Dorado 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.

Build logs

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Median months

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Builds of this boat

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