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Jubilee House boat Build

On April 26, 2012, in Builder Blogs, Houseboats, Inboard Powered, Plywood Construction, by Lowka53
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The Build By Rod Hughes Ogden, Utah Jubilee House Boat Spec’s My plans come from Glen-L Marine Characteristics Length overall 29′-0″ Modified Length overall 40′ Length waterline 26′-3″ Beam 10′-2″ Modified beam 14′ …Hull draft (with skeg) 14″ Hull weight 2100 lbs. Displacement 7310 lbs Height overall 10′-0″ Headroom 6′-3″ to 6′-7″ Freeboard 3′-6″ Fuel capacity […]

Zip Builder Honors Mom With His Boat

On April 20, 2012, in News From Gayle, Videos, by Gayle Brantuk
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  Rick brought his beautiful Zip to the Gathering of Boatbuilders in Tennessee last year. His boat has so many beautiful features that I knew we had to get a video of it. Rick has a CNC machine and did a lot of inlay work and custom wood parts that are really beautiful. I was […]

History Photo #7

On April 13, 2012, in History Photo of the Week, News From Gayle, by Gayle Brantuk
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Since we’ve been in business since 1953, there have been some designs that have been removed from our print catalog. Designs are usually removed because they just didn’t sell well and space was needed for those that did. Some of the early finned designs were removed because they went out of style. With the advent of the […]

True Grit Builder Upgrades Video

On March 29, 2012, in News From Gayle, Power Cruisers, Videos, by Gayle Brantuk
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Today, Ray Macke walks us through the upgrades he made to to his True Grit. We detailed his changes in a previous blog post that you can read here, but it’s so much more fun to have Ray actually show and describe what he did! Ray Macke is one of Glen-L’s famous boat builders. Ray’s first build was […]

Stiletto Update

On March 22, 2012, in Outboard Powered, Plywood Construction, by pamelalynne1
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With the beautiful weather this week in upstate NY I put a final coat of varnish on the deck, a final coat of paint on the side decks, set my old Johnson 25 on the transom to lighten the tongue weight and installed the seats and console cover.