BluePrint 23' Shark Deep Water Sea Runabout 1927 Plan

BluePrint 23' Shark Deep Water Sea Runabout 1927 Blueprint Build Plan + Article

Blue Print measures 11 1/2" X 17 1/2" - The article consists of 2 actual pages, measuring 8" x 11 1/2" each. The Blue Print is a very nice clean piece for framing.

"Shark, A Deep Water Runabout - A Substantial Design and Building Description for a Heavy Duty Runabout Able to Go Out to Sea with Ease."

"This runabout which was designed for real service such as fishing in open waters, came to be through the inquiry and data furnished by a reader..........To have incorporated a forward cockpit that can be closed with a hatch on deck. All of these ideas have been put into Shark. From her lines will be seen that she has plenty of displacement and is not just sitting on top of the water as the usual speed type runabouts are..................The plans of Shark show a boat that is twenty-three feet over-all, twenty-two feet one and three quarter inches water line, six feet six inches beam and two feet draft. The lower shear line is a straight line running from a height at the stem of twenty-seven inches above the designed load water line to a height of twenty-one inches at the transom,......................"

The date appears in the upper margin on the reverse side of page 2 article.

Mild paper tanning due to age. 

It has become harder to locate these old items. It is likely that many of these will not come our way again as they were published only once.

1927 Marine Publication Advertisement

Approximate Dimensions 8" X 11 1/2"