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I was still at Berkeley High School in 1961 when I selected the Glen-L Tiny Might plans. I was broke but craved fast boats. I remember reading that the engine transmission weight limit was 300 pounds but I didn’t want to use the recommended Ford flathead V8. Buick and Oldsmobile were both touting a smaller […]
by BobD I’ve recently completed building a Riviera in Canberra Australia. I’m a Navy veteran forced into retirement with PTSD and have been using the build as part of my therapy. I’m OK now, but It has saved my life – literally! There is no other project like building a wooden boat, and there have […]
(Note: if you want to read this in sequential order, start from the bottom) I started building the Riviera in October of 2015. I have been writing a blog from the beginning documenting the progress. The blog was getting very long very slow for me to update. The first blog documents progress from October 1, 2015 to […]
Being New to the Glen-L Family I guess I should start with how I came to this point of life. Some where in the South Pacific on a Navy ship around 1965 I found a Glen-L Ad for plans in a magazine. I wanted to build just the right boat to fit Me and my […]
Building the Riviera was a very long journey. You will find pictures in my Gallery that show it starting a long while back. It took two phases. Phase one, in the first home and shop took me to the completion of the hull. Phase two finished the boat in my second home and shop. By […]
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