Design
Play Pen
Designed by Glen-L Marine
A 15 ft 5 in outboard dive and fishing boat from Glen-L Marine built around one very large open cockpit on a garvey bow with a vee bottom, an exceptionally wide deck-line beam with heavy flare for reserve buoyancy. Sheet plywood with a sawn harpin and chine that avoid bending longitudinals forward; about 550 lb, outboards to 75 hp or a light I/O. Glen-L publish a beam of 6 ft 11 in and a hull depth of 26 in.
They put the usual load at 1 to 4 people. The hull is a garvey with vee bottom developed for sheet plywood planking. They draw a matching trailer for her. The sawn members make the forward framing easier than usual. Budget 250 to 450 hours. Measured medians from logged builds appear below.
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