Nov04
Drawings for a 16ft motor launch
Motor launch drawings from an old book
These lines and construction drawings for a stylish motor launch come from a pre-WW II copy of the MotorBoat Manual. After all these years I trust no-one will be offended that I photographed them and made them available, and hope that others will find them as interesting as I do - the alternative, I guess, is that they become forgotten.
The forward section is fairly traditional and the central section seems conventional enough - but the aft half of the boat goes somewhere quite different, with styling that seems to me to have been borrowed from much faster boats meant to hydroplane. Yet this is a displacement hull with a small 3-4hp engine, and so I’d guess that the tumblehome in the stern is simply a matter of fashion, and that makes her a period piece.
I love the claim that this boat can be built by amateurs - I know some who could, but I fear most of us, myself included, would be well advised to steer clear of it for fear of wasting a lot of expensive timber!
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