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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.
Click
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
Tavares Spring Fling - March 16-18, 2012
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Currently In The Shop.....
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Compulsion - a Gentleman's Racer
Owner/Driver - Bob Mueller
A conversation and a handshake
lead to our third reproduction project, a 21 foot
gentleman’s
vintage
racer 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
Click here
for Clayton Recap & Photos !!!
MisStress - a 1930 Chris Craft, 24 foot triple cockpit
Owner/Driver - Bob Mueller
In December of 2011,
MisStress was hauled from the owner's Carriage House to the
Vintage Race Boat Shop for complete refinishing. It had been several
years since the last varnish build coats were applied, and because the
boat remains the family favorite, MisStress gets a good workout
every summer on beautiful Lake Winnipesaukee. After all the hardware is
removed and the summer dock rash areas repaired, the boat will be well
sanded and then two coats of bottom paint will be applied along with
four coats of thick, amber tinted Epifanes varnish. We are already
looking forward to our spring launching ceremonies and sea trials !!!
Click here for Project
Photos !!!
Last Update: January 28, 2012
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