Design
Swish
Designed by Glen-L Marine
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. Glen-L publish a beam of 6 ft 4 in.
They put the usual load at 1 to 4 people. The hull is a vee bottom hard chine developed for sheet plywood planking. They draw a matching trailer for her. 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
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| Bass Boat | Stevenson Projects | 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) | 0 |
| Crackerbox | Glen-L Marine | 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) | 0 |
| Cruisette | Glen-L Marine | 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) | 0 |
| Flats River Skiff 15 | Salt Boatworks | 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) | 0 |
| Honker | Glen-L Marine | 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) | 0 |
| Jessy 15 | B&B Yacht Designs | 15′ 0″ (4.57 m) | 0 |