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Vintage
Race Boat Shop

We maintain vintage wooden boats,
by providing year round maintenance
and treating each boat with special care.
About us
Also building reproduction vintage boats.
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here for details
Bill John - owner/driver
Donnie McLean - riding mechanic
Jim Kondrat -
special projects
Vintage Race Boat Shop
PO Box 332 - 7 King Street
Wolfeboro, NH 03894
603-569-5824
John1948@metrocast.net
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Currently In The Shop.....

Ladybug - a 22 foot
Hacker Craft Runabout
Owner/Driver -
Jack Bragdon
In the Fall
of 2011 Ladybug was hauled to the Vintage Race
Boat Shop for a survey, sea trials, winterization,
storage and then complete
refinishing in the spring. Then
on
the afternoon of October 29th, just before the first snow flakes
of great October blizzard began, we launched Ladybug and
ran sea trials on Wolfeboro Bay to find the source of a reported vibration. Upon
close inspection at speed, we found that the drive shaft was
bent and also rubbing on the wood around the shaft log hole,
causing a vibration and harmonics that resonated throughout the
boat. The boat had been repowered, but care was not taken to
allow proper clearance around the shaft log. We then returned to
the docks, winterized the motor and hauled Ladybug to winter storage as
the first snow flakes began to fall. That night it snowed well
over a foot of snow, but Ladybug was tucked away under
cover in winter storage, safe and sound. Ladybug is now back in the shop
for bottom detailing, new drive shaft, attention to detail around the
shaft log hole and complete refinishing with four thick coats of Epifanes
varnish!

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Compulsion - a 21 foot Gar Wood
Speedster
Owner/Driver - Bob Mueller
A conversation and a handshake
lead to our third reproduction project, a 21 foot
Gar Wood Speedster named
Compulsion.
The hull is an aft cockpit,
Gar Wood Speedster
speedster design, very similar to our beloved
Obsession.
In fact, we spent a lot of time measuring the lines of
Obsession and made only a few modifications. This new hull
was constructed of white oak frames with Honduras
Mahogany planking, and powered by a 383 Chevy “stroker”
motor.
The bare hull
and motor were transported to our Vintage Race Boat Shop
in February of 2008
where work began on the project completion, and we ran the
boat at the vintage regatta in Clayton, NY that summer in August
of 2008.
The Gar Wood deck hardware had not arrived from the chrome
shop in time for Clayton, but we went anyway. Our new hull
design ran very well, and the boat ran at the front of the
pack all weekend long.
We had a great time at Clayton, running lots of hot laps on
the course, in fact
there were 6 speedsters running side by side at Clayton.
What fun, and it happens again this year!!!
Click here for Project
Photos !!!
Last Update: May 17, 2012
 
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