![]() Taggart quotes a veteran Lyman restorer as saying, “Don’t even bother looking in the Northeast. Living in Maine, they began their search and quickly ran into a problem. “Plus I wanted a boat that chuckles,” says Witty, describing the trademark sound of small wavelets bouncing off the hull of a lapstrake boat. But Lyman lapstrakes were what Witty and Taggart were most familiar with. “It didn’t really have to be a Lyman,” Taggart says, noting Penn Yan as just one other example of a company that produced clinker-built outboard runabouts with a rock-solid combination of plywood and caulking. Several runabout brands from the ’50s combined lapstrake, or “clinker,” construction techniques with marine plywood and highly durable caulking concoctions, resulting in reliably watertight boats. “I was particularly interested in a clinker-built boat, one small enough for an outboard,” Taggart recalls. So that’s where Jonathan Taggart and Anne Witty started some 10 years ago when they began looking for a salvageable Lyman runabout for use in their waters of Georgetown, Maine. And, as is the case with the 1950s cars of big fender fins, hood scoops, and lots of American-made steel, Lymans are still worth having for both their iconic status and for what they can still do in the environment for which they were designed. Moreover, because they were all so common, nobody paid much attention to any of them, and-with the Lymans as one exception-nobody is much interested in bringing them back into modern use.įortunately, though, some people do care about the classic lines and good basic construction of the Lyman Boat Works’ line of powerboats, which included everything from small, zippy runabouts to family cruisers up to 35′ or so. Tastes and styles changed, and that was pretty much that. Thousands of consumer products were sold, used, admired, and then, eventually, cast aside. I am in St.Much like Nesbitt sodas and Odell Hair Trainer products, Lyman powerboats were everywhere in the 1950s. If you have any questions feel free to call me at 81. It is a good used freshwater motor that has not been run in a few years but would be era correct. While there is no motor included in this sale I am willing to give the buyer a late 50's Evinrude 35 HP outboard if they want it to renovate and add to the boat. The trailer is a TEE NEE in good condition. She is water tight and ready for use now. The refinishing process involved sanding, priming and two coating the exterior hull and sanding the interior and applying cetol penetrating finish. The windshield design is truly beautiful and makes the boat very attractive in my view. It is a beautiful boat that was stored in a barn for many years and when found only needed to be refinished inside and out.there was no rot what so ever found during the survey. ![]() The boat is made of fir lapstrakes, with white oak keel-ribs-rubrails, and mahogany transom, dash, windshield, and assorted seat trim boards. This boat is 15' long with a 64" beam and has a mid ship depth of 26". His company was noted for building very high quality runabouts and duck boats but there is very little information available on the company and its history. This is a 1957 SORG all wood lapstrake designed boat that was built by the HENRY SORG boat company which was on Grand River Ave. ![]()
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