Design

Swish

The Swish is Glen-L Marine's finned 15 ft outboard runabout, Popular Mechanics' cover girl of March 1958, brought back from the archive for people with a classic car to tow it behind. Vee-bottomed sheet plywood, about 440 lb, outboards to 60 hp, and a wide beam that gets on plane without the usual hump.

A period piece in conventional plywood; the tail fins are the fiddly part. Budget 300 to 500 hours. Measured medians from logged builds appear below.

What building a Swish 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 hours

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Median months

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Builds of this boat

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